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Malvertizing is the proper term. Use an ad blocker and you won't have to blame anyone. It's a bad wrap for website owners that are losing money because I block advertizing, but I'm not risking the security of my PC or data for them to make a couple cents off of my visit.
Can be more than a couple a cents, rare but I just had a $10+ click this morning. Probably a law firm ad or something of that nature.
"You'd have to stop visiting 3/4 of the web". Sadly, that just about sums it up. At what point does it become 7/8, then 9/10? That's the direction it's going. It's not realistic to think that lobbying, exposing or complaining is going to make any difference, and it's true that there's a culture of compliance on the subject. Oh well, that's just how it is. There's actually a good reason for this attitude. By and large, the internet user has little to no control over the way things work.
It's not just one thing either, it's EVERYTHING. Going to google used to get interesting search results, but now it's all manipulated. I can use other search engines, but the same mindset is there even if it's hidden or not acknowledged. Until someone comes up with an alternative to the internet, complete with different browsers and protocol, this is the road we're all on. The only way to deal w/ this is to just avoid the internet, or cut down our time on it drastically. Then these people can do what they will.
I can complain till doomsday about the lack of content on TV, the ever increasing violence, and the cost of having it piped into my home, or I can just disconnect it and not watch it. Many people have done just that. "No" is still a very effective word when it comes to running our lives vs having them run. I know, this sounds simplistic and reactive, but things change. I used to moan about how the corporations had ruined football. 3-4 hours to play a 60 minute game due to all the commercials? TIVO just encouraged the networks to embed ads in their shows. So much for that. My decision has been to not watch much football anymore. It's either that or put up w/ it, which sounds like a cop out to me. Until someone shows me a better solution, this is what I'm doing with the internet. Can't see any other viable options. There comes a point where one spends so much time putting out fires that it's simpler and better to not go where the fires are.
I think some people, like me, just don't see the big deal. Advertise to me. I don't care. I've become a pro at glazing over when you show me ads. It's ineffectual.
Track me on the internet. I don't do anything that interesting. or illegal.
Do all this and give me all this free stuff. Thanks.
I will die someday. I won't be here any more. And I certainly won't care then that some mega corporation knows what I bought on Amazon.
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To an intelligent and cautious mind, it should be an automatic red flag when a site detects ad blocking and asks you to turn it off!
Whatever the content is, skip it not worth the risk! Case in point; the topic being discussed.
Have a vm in place. Do all your computing on the actual PC but when it comes to browsing the web which is pretty much the only source of malware attacks for most any average home user, use the vm. Period.
If something goes crazy and there is an infection, it takes less than a few minutes to revert back to a clean snapshot. Say by to your AV scanner too.
What I noticed is there's still driver issues and as time went by my pc got slower which was another complaint about 10
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Probably a law firm ad or something of that nature.
