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Thread ID: 145952 2018-03-14 18:39:00 "Malvertising" Terry Porritt (14) Press F1
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1447300 2018-03-14 18:39:00 Interesting item from Malwarebytes about malvertising, ads which contain really nasty stuff to sneak into your computer and take control:

blog.malwarebytes.com
Terry Porritt (14)
1447301 2018-03-14 19:32:00 Even more reason to use adblockers.

And Linux...lol
piroska (17583)
1447302 2018-03-14 19:51:00 Website owners dont give a rats ass about who they let advertise on their website .

Some obviously bogus stuff often advertised in legit website . Basically snake oil sort of stuff.
Or as has happened in the past, the submitted ad is OK, then that ad gets changed without the website owner knowing (or caring) .
1101 (13337)
1447303 2018-03-15 04:04:00 There's a lot of money exchanging hands that some advertisers have no morals and will exploit visitors. The amount of profiling that takes place is crazy that it will get to a stage where everyone will start catching on to using more private and secure means.

For the paranoid (myself included), I run Tails OS for a lot of financial transactions, banking, foreign, cryptocurrency, etc. It's designed for privacy and security. Every now and again flaws show up, but it does feel a lot safer.
Kame (312)
1447304 2018-03-15 05:17:00 Most sites ads are supplied by an ad 'network' so the site owner has no idea what specific ads are served. fred_fish (15241)
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