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Mike McQuaid 22 February 2026 at 10:17

Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.

There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.

Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.

https://github.com/Homebrew/install/issues/1074

Google keyword `brew` points to a malicious site with false Homebrew install instructions · Issue #1074 · Homebrew/install
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Google keyword `brew` points to a malicious site with false Homebrew install instructions · Issue #1074 · Homebrew/install
your problem was from running the official install or uninstall script? you carefully read the output and it was not a git fetch or other connection issue to GitHub (that Homebrew has no control ov...
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