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5. Also the automated fashion with which they load ads on the backend

Fri May 27, 2016, 10:47 PM

May 2016

also leaves it vulnerable to serving up malware infested ads.

I get a scummy site like drudgereport, but when perfectly normal sites like weather.com have malware injected, the process is broken.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/my-browser-visited-drudgereport-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-malware/

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People are turning on ad blockers because of data-consuming ad tech [View all] SecularMotion May 2016 OP

I put HuffPo in my hosts file lpbk2713 May 2016 #1

Turning off javascript for a site works wonders. ManiacJoe May 2016 #2

I might not be so adamant about ad-blocking... TygrBright May 2016 #3

Also the automated fashion with which they load ads on the backend mythology May 2016 #5

Surfing without Ad-Blockers Earth Bound Misfit May 2016 #4

I prefer Ghostery Pastiche423 Jun 2016 #6