@Mithrandir24601 hi... so, weird question, do you have any idea what "alphashoppers.co" has to do with quantumcomputing.SE? quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/site-analytics/…

@glS That's really weird... Maybe it's just the way it runs things, like all searches are done through it or something?

Although I also don't trust those stats that much

@Mithrandir24601 so, if you write "alphashoppers.co" on google and see the suggestions, it seems the most searched for strings are akin to "how to remove alphashoppers.co". This makes it look a lot like it's some kind of self-installing virus-like thing that hijacks people's searches

@glS Yeah... Makes sense

actually, on a second look. Notice how the number of referrals from it is identical to that of bing searches? lol

Yeah, that's a thing about how the analytics seems to work though - It seems to bin everything into discrete amounts or something?

@Mithrandir24601 oh, didn't know that

anyway, yea it's definitely a malicious thing pcrisk.com/removal-guides/13916-alphashoppers-co-redirect pretty eerie how widespread it seems to be