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Ad that redirected my page to some shady hosting site with a red background and scary text about how I had some virus and needed to call "Microsoft" at the numb
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Ad that redirected my page to some shady hosting site with a red background and scary text about how I had some virus and needed to call "Microsoft" at the number they provided with a bunch of personal information to fix it. (I assume a JS "vuln" to take over the page -- not that they really regulate ads from how often it happens.)
...Which is particularly goddamn egregious for a Microsoft website to be serving.
If advertisers want me to feel the least bit bad for them and their woes, they need to take some kind of responsibility for those antics. They wanna keep that up? I hope the whole industry dies: getting a warning like that from a Microsoft website could easily have caught my grandma.
tl;dr: Fuck ad networks, fuck Microsoft.
- exikyut 9y agoOh wow, it was one of *those( scams - and [redirected] from the MS site itself. I'm impressed.