I'm not being a smartass. Intrusive ads are malware. Adware used to be a category in virus scanners, then stopped when virus scanners wanted to run ads themselv

I'm not being a smartass. Intrusive ads are malware. Adware used to be a category in virus scanners, then stopped when virus scanners wanted to run ads themselves. Proxying traffic is not malware, since it doesn't affect me in any way.