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More briefly: Since any ad network's incentives align more closely with malware authors' than my own, I'm blocking a channel which is a known malware distributi
by msla 9y ago
More briefly: Since any ad network's incentives align more closely with malware authors' than my own, I'm blocking a channel which is a known malware distribution vector.
- basseq 9y agoI'm not seriously concerned about malware. I trust Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Windows) enough to protect me if someone does try to serve me malware. And on mobile, iOS malware really isn't a thing, and I trust Apple there, too. It's mainly about customer experience. On desktop, that's auto-playing videos and terrible "sponsored content". On mobile, it's malicious redirects to the app store that not only takes me away from your content, but my entire application. (And, also on mobile, a real cost: your 1MB tracking JS costs me a couple cents and counts towards my cap every time I load it. I hope your caching logic is sound.)