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Citation needed on malware not being able to be installed without user interaction! I don't trust CNN to monitor those 41 domains. I don't expect CNN to monito
by parenthephobia 11y ago
Citation needed on malware not being able to be installed without user interaction!
I don't trust CNN to monitor those 41 domains. I don't expect CNN to monitor those 41 domains. The very point of an ad-broker service that allows the highest bidder to inject their own content into a website is that CNN doesn't know ahead of time who's going to provide the content for a particular view.
If a website uses an ad-broker which permits - or can be tricked into allowing - adverts which aren't just simple static content - e.g. allowing javascript, SVG, web fonts: anything which might have browser bugs exploitable by malware - there could be a problem.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoThis is an excellent point: how on earth can publishers be happy with this? Every time I see either the face peel / belly fat advert, or the component with a grid of so-link-baity-its-parody ads in it, I think less of the site I'm on. It doesn't matter how prestigious your name, if you associate it with the scummiest content in the universe, prepare to cop some flak.