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Summary: weather.com uses an ad provider who gives them a malicious ad .1% of the time.

• vorpalhex 7y ago
  When you customer base is 100m+, that's potentially affecting a lot of people. It's very likely most of their users are not very technically literate, so these kinds of attacks are very performant. "Only 0.1% of our profit comes from pureeing children into profit!" isn't a defense.
  • TheRealPomax 7y ago
    Certainly, but that comment basically contains all the information I needed to move on to the next article in the HN firehose.
• kibwen 7y ago
  Takeaway: Install adblockers to universally block advertising networks--even on sites you would otherwise trust and like to support--and encourage all your friends and loved ones to do the same, especially if they're less technically literate.
• jlv2 7y ago
  He hasn't even shown this is a malicious ad, rather than a misleading, bogus offer.