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I use an adblocker because most sites I visit that serve ads do not personally vet the ads that run (with the great exception I can recall being 4chan, of all p

I use an adblocker because most sites I visit that serve ads do not personally vet the ads that run (with the great exception I can recall being 4chan, of all places!), they use an unfiltered third party network, which generally are great vehicles for malware. While sites might not be able to vet individual ads, they do get to choose which advertisers to use and it's glaringly obvious which ones use the ads people hate. Why not just not visit sites that decide to use annoying ads?

Nursie 14y ago
Because you've already caught the malware by the time you figure it out?
Karunamon 14y ago
A site doesn't have to run "annoying" ads for them to accidentally serve malware. Annoyance is just another line on the litany of reasons to run an ad blocker.