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Comment on Ask HN: Something fishy is going on with Google feed on my Android

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No this is also happening to me as well

Many links on Google Now or whatever they call it these days (sodebar on android) dont work. I have Brave browser set to have shields off an my pihole dns is not blocking. It acts like a dead domain.

Such a weird thing. .aigc isn’t a real toplevel domain, and when I searched for it I found that apparently TikTok uses it as an abbreviation for “ai generated content”. That fits with the fake headlines. I was going to suggest checking /etc/hosts to see if some lines had been put in there by malware to make fake domain names capable of resolving, but you say the links don’t work. So that’s weird.

So is this just something wrong with Google?

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