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Some grey hat should write a virus that infects all browsers with ad blockers.
by patagonia 8y ago
Some grey hat should write a virus that infects all browsers with ad blockers.
- weinzierl 8y agoSigh, where is The Janit0r when we need him...
- teddyh 8y agoWe need a Cancelmoose for the modern time.
- Rjevski 8y agoEven better, kill the cancer at the source by attacking ad network’s servers. I’m actually wondering, would the record-breaking DDoS attacks we had a year ago thanks to the Mirai botnet be enough to take down Shitbook if all the attack traffic was directed at them? What if instead of pure bandwidth-exhaustion, this capacity was used to flood them with ad clicks or fake page views to poison their spying with fake data?
- earenndil 8y agoBecause that doesn't work. What's a ddos to many is just routine traffic to a company at the size and scale of google and facebbook. Besides, ddossing them would be immoral, illegal, and wouldn't actually solve the problem.
- gukov 8y agoYou know how they say mining crypto is equivalent to the power consumption of Denmark? I wonder how much of global energy is spent on tracking people.
- patagonia 8y agoMind... blown...
- perl4ever 8y agoI initially read this as "a virus that infects all browsers that already have ad blockers" because of the ambiguity of "with".