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  • Browsers should not have access to the clipboard.
    by jimt1234
  • Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.
    by werds
  • Ads are malware. It's not really surprising when they're found to be bootstrapping other malware.
    by __MatrixMan__
  • The sad thing is that we need adblockers in the first place.

    Granted, even in the 1990s there were ads; I remember blinking banners and what not. But often the underlying website was still fine as such.

    Fast forward some years. Now if you look at e. g. medium.com but many other websites, you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with pointless pop-ups, slide-ins, and pester-naggers. No I do use ublock origin (it works on thorium by default) so I only get very few ads, but many websites just pursue a strategy to piss off visitors. I do not understand this. If you want anyone to read your content, do not pester them at all. Nowadays when a slide-in appears that sneaks through ublock origin, I don't even let ublock origin block it, I just insta-close that tab. Cookie accept banners fall into the similar category, though some add-ons help with that.

    by shevy-java
  • I have a feeling everyone with understanding of the situation or even a vague malaise opening a news article and being bombarded with popups that intercept their attention knows why ad blockers are needed, and any perceived "discourse" to the contrary is one sided, from the ad agencies and media platforms that largely and subversively direct the narrative.

    It's getting harder by the day to tell sentiment apart from narrative.

    by functionmouse
  • Ad blockers at dns level too, not just browsers. A lot of people don’t even know how to block them, check your parents or kids (or non technical people in general) phone and you will see how they are riddled with ads. I had a dns blocker installed on my parents phones and in around 6hrs it blocked 10k queries from 3 apps only..
    by tamimio
  • It's definitely proof that dynamic ads added via an external script library are a massive security risk, that's for sure. Even if the provider doesn't actually get hacked like Adform here, you're still banking on them being able to reject/filter out malware and malicious ads, which plenty of 'credible' networks seem completely unable or unwilling to do.

    Going online without an adblocker just feels like playing with fire, especially nowadays.

    by CM30
  • Probably should just link to the security researcher's post, since it's far more informative:

    https://doublepulsar.com/adform-compromised-to-serve-crypto-...

    by strictnein

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