Publishers have no one to blame but themselves. If they actually vetted the ads that ran on their sites, and didn't act irresponsibly and allow malicious code t

Publishers have no one to blame but themselves. If they actually vetted the ads that ran on their sites, and didn't act irresponsibly and allow malicious code to run with the excuse that "a third party advertiser did it," then we could start having a conversation about advertising. If they didn't allow a million trackers to run scripts on their sites, then we could have a conversation about advertising. Publishers shot themselves in the foot here by taking any dollar they could get, damn the consequences.