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Ugh. To paraphrase PageFair's website, ads keep the internet free, but the way ads are implemented today also keeps botnets around.

• rayuela 11y ago
  Why is this so? Is this because of their use as fake traffic?
  • johncolanduoni 11y ago
    That's true, but not what I was thinking of. Even big websites of some repute (like The Economist) are in the habit of letting a multitude of external agents run unrestricted JavaScript on their pages. As in this case, that power can be used to distribute exploits.
    • rayuela 11y ago
      Ah, very interesting...