Takeaways from Vox’s post on malicious ads
You can pry my adblocker out of my cold, dead hands.
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Series: Rage Against the Ad Networks
Ad networks are dangerous to your privacy and your computer’s security. They should not be allowed to exist in their current form.
Ad networks in their current incarnation are too dangerous to be allowed to exist.
They work fine for their intended purpose (that is, delivering mediocre advertisements and tracking you across the web), but more importantly they’re very effective at distributing malware, quickly, to _lots_ of people.
Ad-light, Malware-heavy
Forbes has been running an anti-adblocking experiment which completely misses the point—and serves malware as a bonus.
Ad blockers aren’t killing the web; ad networks are killing the web
A bunch of people this morning are sharing The Verge’s article about ad blocking. But ad blockers aren’t the problem here. Ad networks are the ones killing the web and if they want to stay in business they have some shit to fix.