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If it's not detecting malware, then it's not a malware blocker. As far as I know, ad blockers work based on host name and css selectors. If there was an actua
by recursive 5y ago
If it's not detecting malware, then it's not a malware blocker.
As far as I know, ad blockers work based on host name and css selectors. If there was an actual anti-malware that was so trivially bypass-able, it would be laughed out of the room. uBO blocks hosts of advertisers. AFAIK they don't distinguish between malware and non-malware, nor do they detect malware from other sources.
- account42 5y agoThe people embedding the ads or even delivering them are not neccessarily malicious (in the malware sense at least). Also, as long as most people don't block ads they don't have as much incentive to counteract ad blockers. So at least for now ad blocking remains effective for both malicious and benign ad payloads.