This is basically the chain of events that led to my mother disabling adblock globally (as instructed by a tv channel "on demand" website), and subsequently got an ad popup for "there's a virus on your computer" and so on and so forth.
Cue a day of my weekend spent fixing a dead laptop.
and people wonder why iOS doesn't have an option to let you side load apps, even after changing a setting. Or why Android warns you harshly on every boot when you install an external CA, etc.
Cue a day of my weekend spent fixing a dead laptop.