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What is "ar.inspiredpencil.com"? (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Often when I’m doing an internet search, I get a list of results from “ar.inspiredpencil.com”. When I click on them, they’re in Arabic, which I don’t speak or read. Is anyone else seeing this? Is this some kind of search engine spam? Is it just me? I don’t understand why this is happening.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is this some kind of search engine spam?

Yes. Remove the 'ar.' (which, well, stands for arabic), and it will show you 'articles' in your regions language (which is dumb, but oh well). Mostly random questions that people search most on google etc., reposted and answered for clicks. May have ads everywhere, idk, I never disable uBlock.