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Situation is that dire. I think following happens. Actual click through rate on online ads is low. People don't want to pay lots of money for ads that don't in
by Ygg2 5y ago
Situation is that dire.
I think following happens. Actual click through rate on online ads is low. People don't want to pay lots of money for ads that don't increase their revenue.
Only ones willing to pay for ads are shady business. We are talking unlicensed pills, scams, crypto etc.
Eventually those dry up so they go even lower, malware authors willing to use ads as malware vectors.
I browsed once without ad blocker on some webcomic and shit I had delivered was actually malware. As in Defender was activated.
- account42 5y ago> [...] was actually malware. As in Defender was activated. I don't doubt that plenty of ads are malware but let's not pretend that Defender does not have tons of false positives or that MS cares about preventing them.
- Ygg2 5y agoWhile I have encountered false positives with Defender, the fact that ads are deploying something Defender can detect, is hair raising in itself.