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Ads are not the only nor, afaik, even the most common vector for malware. If your computer can get hacked by you just visiting a webpage, you need to fix that r
by eli 10y ago
Ads are not the only nor, afaik, even the most common vector for malware. If your computer can get hacked by you just visiting a webpage, you need to fix that regardless of whether you block ads. It's a huge security problem
- cbdfghh 10y agoIf you don't want to get hacked by visiting a website, use cURL (actually, I think it had a few security bugs, so...) The difference is that websites have rep, and google polices sites with malware protection (which firefox uses too, btw). What about ads?
- candiodari 10y agoReputation doesn't work well enough because of ads. I think that's the gist of the complaint here. Ads means otherwise reputable websites serve malware. Even when the ads themselves are trustworthy, they very often do not have acceptable security practices, preventing interception.
- eli 10y agoThis reminds me of the argument that you should run SSH on an non-standard port. Sure, can't hurt. I'm sure it does stop many indiscriminate drive-by attacks. But it's hardly a real security solution. If your SSH server is so weak that it could fall to a drive-by attack then you have much bigger problems. (And, FWIW, Google's malware blocking applies equally to ads as it does sites you type into the address bar)