I started strongly encouraging my family and friends to use adblockers around the same time, when nytimes.com was hit by a malvertising campaign. I understand

I started strongly encouraging my family and friends to use adblockers around the same time, when nytimes.com was hit by a malvertising campaign. I understand the economic model of free access with advertising, but I'm not going to put my computer and data at risk for it. Allowing ads to include executable code was idiotic.