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Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising (engadget.com)
Deathlizard writes with a report at Engadget that when this year's "Forbes 30 Under 30" list came out , "it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list. On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information."
It's an ex girlfriend you hook up with again.
193 huh? Sounds like you picked up some kind of malware which injects ads into websites. Perhaps you picked it up at Forbes?
Working to patent your idea now ;)
Okay, I DO understand the point that content producers make that it cuts into their revenue. And I DO believe they should be paid for their labors.
But that doesn't mean I'm going to work a second job just to turn the proceeds over to them.
Malvertising is a ubiquitous, ongoing problem. And I'm not exposing any systems I have control over to that. Because the amount of work it takes to clean up from that sort of infection is VERY non-trivial. And if it causes me to lose data on a business machine? Oh HELL no!
Current internet advertising is a dirty, disease-ridden whore, and ad blockers are condoms.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
The faggots, of course, think it was all about "homophobia".
I wonder how they got that idea.