[davidgerard]

Even the legitimate ad networks for major publisher seem unable to keep from being used as channels for malware.

You're not quite making a moral case that it's my duty to open my computer to exploitation to browse the web.

[paulhauggis]

We can't keep people from getting addicted to drugs either. Using your logic, there is no moral case for making them legal. You really aren't winning any arguments here.

No worries though. Developers will continue to come back to HN and bitch about losing their high paying development jobs.

I'm tired of trying to defend stupid...and just do what everyone else does and capitalize on it instead. The company that writes the most popular Ad block extension has done just this: you can pay to get yourself on a white list. Tell me again how this has anything to do with saving people from malware?

I've done my part for society.

It's amazing that there are so many smart people that can't see the forest through the trees.