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by absconditus 5316 days ago
Can you really think of no other ways in which ads might harm someone?
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I could, yes - but I was lightly referencing the fact that opening up a newspaper and seeing an ad that I don't care for means I can move past it or ignore it, whereas with a computer it could mean having to spend time running a malware scan because the ad was hosted by a malicious provider.