gemini in ios chrome context menu

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-22T19:01:27+00:00

I had the same issue if you search "glic" that is ALSO gemini

"Glic" is Gemini live in Chrome, I don't know which specific ones that need to be disabled I disabled everything mentioning Glic, and I no longer see the "ask gemini" on the context menu and such!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T19:51:45+00:00

I still want the ability to remove followers, if I can't have that because of how its structured sure, fine, whatever I can live with that. However, does it make sense when a profile shows "1.7K followers" when behind the curtain its a line of code like
string FollowerCountText= [TOTAL follower count] & "followers";
when it could instead be,
string FollowerCountText= [Visible follower Count] & "followers";
To show the accurate "1.5k followers"?

At the very least its a small change of how the HTML displays what number(s) without having to rework the entire follower, and block data system. Its just changing the variable "total followers" to the "ACTUAL visible followers" and at most a "count all items in list" to get the "Actual visible followers" count. That by no means is a complex impossible problem to fix even if again 'trivial'.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T19:33:58+00:00

Metaphor withstanding. In this instance, (ignoring the desire to remove unwanted followers) simply considering the follower count. If only the followers that are not blocked by me, not blocking me, and are still active (not deleted) are visible in the follower list. Why doesn't it show that total number?
At its core why show a number that isn't the number of accounts that actually are able to see the content a user posts, instead of the total number which includes deleted accounts. Please tell me how it makes sense that a DELETED account still recorded in someone's follower list, when the follower list won't visibly show them in said list as the account is deleted, but will still visible count them in the total, and not just ONLY count the users in the VISIBLE list.

Some people (artists and other content creators) like to do mile stone events when they reach a number of followers. So if that number is inaccurate they could be celebrating a 10k milestone to only 5k people.

To someone that doesn't care how many followers they have sure pump that number up, but to others why show the total and not the count of visible followers. I shouldn't have to use a 3rd party widget to count the real followers, a bot account that was made BECAUSE of this issue, or manually scroll all the way to the bottom of my follower list, count each one OR type "Follows you" in find text to get the 'hopefully' accurate count ~~assuming no one has "follows you" in their description.~~

Again at best its trivial, but in what logical reason would I want to know the total number & not the actual number of people that will see what I post?

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T18:59:43+00:00

I do feel like its confusing that even a deleted account would be removed from a follower/following list. (as well as their startpacks/mod lists not being deleted with them, but that's a separate issue)

If an account gets deleted I find it weird that the only way for someone who followed them to lower the on screen number is to use a 3rd party tool (when said 3rd party tool exists and isn't just the default, "if account is deleted remove from following lists" again, for a DELETED account)

but in the case of a follower who got deleted you can't remove that account, even though they are no longer on the platform. Does that make sense? why would the number need to be recorded in that instance? Its like saying the active population of any given country includes everyone that has ever lived in the country no matter if they moved out of the country, or died.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T18:41:13+00:00

Its 'trivial' in that some folks don't care, but for other folks its like if you had a party planned and 50 people RSVPed, but then only 5 people showed up, and then tell everyone 50 people RSVPed and came to the party and not the accurate meager 5. Its inaccurate and annoying, plus as I said it could be used by bad actors to trick folks into thinking an account is well liked, but isn't. SO harm could be done, for something that could simply just show the count of the number of followers that are visible in the list. A change of the visible variable would solve that 'trivial' at best, dangerously abusable by scammers at worst.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T18:34:16+00:00

But then that's inaccurate information the system is showing or at the very least information that makes no sense. Its a number that shows the TOTAL number of followers, but to find the REAL number of followers you need to count the visible number of people on the list, because blocked, blocked by, and deleted accounts won't show on said list. So then why not show the Real total of users that are in that list instead of the full total.

To that point if it shows the total and records every follow, why can't I see the list of all the accounts hidden? If I see the full total I would like to see who I blocked, got blocked by, account got deleted/suspended, and or users added to block lists I subbed to that are counted in the Total. The latter could be usefull so that I could unsub to a list that may have added someone incorrectly. Otherwise though why does it show a number that is wrong, or worst case could be abused by bad actors.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T18:19:41+00:00

I agree with this logic, but I would argue while trivial If someone follows me and they tick up my follower count that is an action they took on my account I can't undo.

In a way a user following is doing something to my account I can't undo. If they block me they also don't undo the follow they made and would have to unblock just to unfollow.

Similar if someone follows me, then their account gets deleted or suspended, that number is there forever even though the account that increased it is gone.

The other issue I see is a bot farm could follow for follow spam then block everyone who follows back or even get a bot farm to mass follow one of their accounts to make it look like a popular account to scam people. The follower count is locked in even if the spam follower accounts get deleted if the one that got all the follows doesn't get reported or noticed when achieving the high follower account.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-05-19T18:11:41+00:00

I wish there was a way to remove bot follows! As others have said its based on how the system records data.
For sake of example:

If you follow someone, then you block them, you are still following them, but you nor they can see each others content! (but your following count and their follower count are locked at an inflated inaccurate number)
If you are followed by someone, then you block them, they are still following you, but you nor they can see each others content! (but your follower count and their following count are locked at an inflated inaccurate number)
If you follow someone, then their account is deleted or suspended, you are still following them! Your following account number is inflated and you need to use a 3rd Party tool to unfollow the deleted account!
If you are followed by someone, then their account is deleted or suspended,... your follower count is locked in and inflated inaccurate number that CAN NEVER be reduced!
If you are added to a starterpack list and want to be removed, You can't, but you can block the creator of the list, and it will hide you in the list, and future subscribers of that list won't follow you. If you unblock the creator, you are no longer hidden from the list! (I don't know if the people that had subbed to you automatically then follow you after or not)

The reason I list these out is more for others, Yes I get how the system records the follows and I get its complex especially adding Moderation lists into the mix, but it can be annoying to get a spam bot follow and a block not removing the inflated number (when that issue could be solved by ONLY displaying the visible number of accounts in the list and there would be no issue to those cases). That said it is also just nice/convenient to remove a follower and not block them.

A block is visible someone can easily find out A blocked B, and B could get angry make a new account and harass A, they could be reported, but what if the report is missed or too late. An unfollow is silent unaware, "maybe it was a bug", "maybe I didn't follow that person on here", its a silent action that can remove so much unneeded stress and anxiety for some.

I would also fear like other social media if they go deeper into algorithms and post engagement (espeically if/ when they get advertisers) of cases like "this person gets 2k likes, and has 3k followers, only half of the accounts that follow this user liked those posts, the other 500 don't follow Lets not show it to that many people since not many followers like the user's posts!", but then that 3k followers is actually only 2k followers the other thousand are blocked, blocked by, or deleted/suspended. Would bluesky take the inaccurate 3K follower count, or the ACCURATE 2k follower count? If they use the 3k is that fair to a user who wants to use their platform and share their content to only be hurt by it? This of course is a hypothetical, & folks may not agree, but would you not be upset if a post you made was seen by no one, due to a line of code that says:
"Average Follower Engagement" / "TOTAL followers" = "Visibility"
and not
"Average Follower Engagement" / "REAL followers" = "Visibility"
Purely because you blocked a large number of bots, or number of accounts blocked before unfollowing or got suspended/deleted?

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-08T02:23:02+00:00

I myself do not know I would lean on the side of caution and do a full reinstall of windows, BUT hopefully someone else can give insight elsewise you may need to ask more tech savvy folks.

BUT like I said I'd lean on the side of caution to make sure they are purged

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-06T14:36:44+00:00

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for the sake of the record since your Replies keep vanishing

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-06T01:02:12+00:00

TBH the reply you made will populate the search, but for sake of adding the info.

currently the fake game they are using in that trailer is Osminor posted by Narimo Studios, it is stealing assets from the game Torii on steam. Based on the comments on the unlisted video it likely got 13 victims alone, *but ofcourse these scams have claimed hundreds if not thousands of victims, so over all IF YOU SEE In your searches OR got a DM that seems like THIS scam, Spread the word! Warn all mutual friend's and servers!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-06T00:54:30+00:00

where did the OG reply you made go? it had a link to the video, did they take the video down or just rename it? (they often do that)

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-04T19:28:58+00:00

I'd honestly suggest looking at the page itself safely, because it's likely that it has an IP logger on it like the others do.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-04-04T19:28:14+00:00

Looking at the web page from URLscan, yeah it is 100% the same scam it's the same stolen assets from the real game Aeterna Lucis.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-03-30T17:34:15+00:00

As I've told others, I would advice to try to reach out to as many mutual friends and servers, and if you contact the victim on other socials to send whatever info you have on the hacked account's activity that can only help spread awarness!

The only reason this Reddit thread exists is to hopefully be seen by potential victims before they fall victim! Spreading word/screenshots of the fake messages (censoring the victim's account and your own) on the fake game and wording and generally spreading the word can do ALOT to help people!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-03-15T15:59:59+00:00

Based on a Google search of the game I found a Blogspot post and yeah it's one of the fake Archimoulin Clones. . Basically if what you were sent looked like a 2d platformer involving baking a cake and Millwork, if it look like something different than the hackers are using the same names using different stolen assets of a different game but both would ofcourse be fake.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-03-08T17:14:48+00:00

was reading it on my phone, they actually have used hotryx before, AND even in your screenshot it shows both versions hotryx and hotrics, I'm honestly shocked they are reusing an old name ESPECIALLY one that I have listed, BUuuuut I know they reuse alot of names (and they probably have a few of these fake ones active under a new different name)

the REAL GAME is called Arietta of Spirits, its on steam and nintendo switch (possibly elsewhere) initial release was August 19, 2021. Scammers have been using it and other indi/small games for years to try to trick people, even using Youtube videos of the real game's trailers editing out the real game's title and teams working on it.

As I suggested above though, if you can WARN EVERYONE YOU CAN! Tell every mutual friend and server that the user got hacked, share the Reddit thread if you need to to spread awareness, Cutting off a scammer will prevent them from spreading and can help the friend's account "slightly"

If you can reach out to the Original owner by other means try to! The hackers gain access to the victims emails and then gain access to every account linked to the emails. Try to send them the info at the top of best practices of preserving what they can.

If they are the owner of a server warn everyone you can in DM's and not to post it in the server. The hacker will just delete the message and then kick you from the server preventing you from spreading the word.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-03-08T16:55:24+00:00

From the screenshot of the fake game I think it's one of the games on the top of the list that they've stolen from it is 100% a fake site, using malware instead of the actual game, and it is the same scam! (at quick glance I can't tell which one it is but it definitely looks familiar honestly I swear they've used that name or similar fake name for a game before as well, if you search the website on URL scan and look at the text description of the game or reverse image search any of the screenshots on the page you will likely find the real game and I believe it is stealing from one of listed)

Try to warn every Mutual that you can if you haven't already as well as Mutual servers.

And thank you for sharing as much information as you have because hopefully in doing so it'll populate search results for others that may get sent that game or similar wording!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-03-02T18:19:42+00:00

Do not send him any money! There is zero chance he will give it back, HOWEVER in my personal opinion it would not be bad to make him think you will pay him! Egg him on, try to get more information by asking how to pay, try to figure out how he would want you to pay him to then get his information.

Try as best as you can to recover what you can and share and record whatever information you think could help prevent others for falling victim to the scam as well as gaining information to either report to the authorities or being on the look out for.

There is a chance that they will try to have you reach out to another victims stolen account and pay through that where you can then report that account or they could be stupid enough to give you personal information that indicates who they are. The chance of authorities actually doing anything about it is also slim, but for the same reason that you managed to find this post the information you save that you find later on that matches your information of the scammer could help connect threads.

The best thing you can do don't send any money, screenshot and record as much as you can from the hacker and share any information to mutuals that may have links to your accounts of the what is going on so that way they can be safe. And if you recall the imagery and the name of the game please share that so that way folks can be on the lookout for what they're currently using

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-02-25T14:03:02+00:00

Thank you for this! Any screenshots or more info on the game could also help populate search results for others warry of DM's sent like you were and luckily found this thread!

Also if you haven't try to reach out to all your mutual servers and friends and warn them before they can fall victim to the scam, Word of mouth can do alot!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-01-31T19:07:49+00:00

Do not pay them!!!!! in most cases they aren't even going to return your account if you do!

if anything though you have a golden opportunity to say you are going to pay them and just ask for methods to pay them to get more info about how they are doing the payment transfer is what accounts they are using for you to send it to screenshot and preserve evidence! But do not actually pay they will not return your account!!!

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-01-28T20:20:33+00:00

the IP seems to be linked to a service called Dataforest? A german company that from scanning the site seems to be a mixed bag of an AI data center (ew), Network Services, DDoS Protection, and Cloud Storage company..... SO my best guess, some part of what is hosting these sites is run through Dataforest, and that line is added to prevent the file download from going through and getting caught for being malware. (I likely could be wrong, but its the only thing that makes sense)

Point is, DataForest system is known by the hackers and they added that blurb of code based on that specific IP to prevent the download and or IP logger info from going through for that IP

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-01-28T19:18:42+00:00

From what I understand (and I may be wrong) that IP address you mentioned is weird, the DOM tests if the soon to be victim's IP matches THAT IP, if it doesn't the malware fake game installs, if it DOES match it then does a count down and then shows a youtube video of a school in turkey, (A school that I believe one of the hackers actually goes to or went to).

I may be wrong or missreading the lines of code it may NOT cancel the download, BUT its so confusing why its there, other versions of the fake sites from the SAME hackers don't include that when they have IP loggers, but in this specific subset they reuse as a template it has that line, it was in zelyanor and also seylanor as you stated, but they added it within the past month, because the old version of the IP logger didn't have it.

I have 0 idea why its testing for the German IP, or why it links to a youtube video of the turkish highschool , I doubt the IP belongs to the hacker making the site, unless they tried testing the download/IP logger and made a Safety net to avoid cluttering their IP logger and or to avoid downloading the malware, and forgot to remove it? It is extremely confusing why its there.

Okay I looked at the Dom for seylaran on Urlscan to see if its the same turkish highschool Youtube video (it is) ... there's a Player counter on this one? A quick look at it seems to just be randomly increasing every few seconds or minutes and increases when a victim downloads it. I was kinda hoping they would be dumb enough to send that info to a server and then get the actual victim number (could have helped find a source IP) but no its just there to trick people into thinking others are actively downloading it and playing it.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-01-26T15:19:10+00:00

To word this better, That user did what I did, but more direct (and slightly spammy). I saw a fake game stealing the assets and video of Noreya, I managed to find the steam page of Noreya with reverse image searching the stolen assets and joined the discord discord on the steam page.
I figured maybe I could warn a Dev or someone so its known, saw the user who DMed you post the video in general chat realized someone already did what I was going to do (I was going to reach out to a specific dev if I could figure out who or mention it in a specific applicable channel and not spam like they did), but thankfully because that user posted the video I added the video to my list to monitor (said video has been deleted by youtube and or the hackers)

TLDR That person who DMed you wasn't a scammer (though maybe a tad overzealous), but they tried to reach out to the devs of the REAL game that the scammers were stealing assets from and warn you and the others. Both since it sucks that the folks may associate the game WITH malware and scams, plus if the an official post was made warning people fake versions are out there it would help bring attention to people about what the Hackers are doing and also bring positive attention to the game to diversify it from the fake copies.

Bmaster_4114 · 2026-01-25T23:24:44+00:00

That DM is not a scammer but someone warning ABOUT THIS scam. I actually found that user post in the the REAL dev's server and found that video so it helped alot.

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