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> malicious ads, which are not designed to sell a product or service. Instead, they are designed to infect your device. From which they can collect/extract data about you.

At this point we can only assume that every ad is malicious. It doesn't matter if they are designed to sell a product or service. They'll still collect/extract data about you at every opportunity.

At best, they're attempts to manipulate us. That might mean making us feel insecure about ourselves or our lifestyle so that they can trick is into giving them money. It might mean outright lying to us and feeding our fears to push us to support a certain politician or law. It might be promoting outright scams.

Surveillance advertising needs to die. Paying people to view ads alone won't remove the harms advertising can cause, but at least it's a "pull" vs "push" model which I approve of since it can be safely ignored by anyone unwilling to subject themselves to manipulation and exploitation.

You should consider a strict code of conduct for what types of ads you will/won't allow on your platform to keep the worst of it away. Fact-checking and vetting takes time and money, but it would keep your service from being used to spread disinformation and scams and could help prevent some of the harms.