Wholeheartedly agree with this section: “Lee: Do you think people should use adblock software? Snowden: Yes. Everybody should be running adblock software, if

Wholeheartedly agree with this section: “Lee: Do you think people should use adblock software? Snowden: Yes. Everybody should be running adblock software, if only from a safety perspective … We’ve seen internet providers like Comcast, AT&T, or whoever it is, insert their own ads into your plaintext http connections. … As long as service providers are serving ads with active content that require the use of Javascript to display, that have some kind of active content like Flash embedded in it, anything that can be a vector for attack in your web browser — you should be actively trying to block these. Because if the service provider is not working to protect the sanctity of the relationship between reader and publisher, you have not just a right but a duty to take every effort to protect yourself in response.” Not even just ads being injected by ISPs, but even ads as they’re being used by the website owners themselves (in general) are a vector for malware, as has been shown time and time again¹. ―――――― ¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517932