| Wow, aren't you the fallacy guy. Please, give me more fallacies! I should just change my username to fallaciousgoats. How about this: I didn't use the word "knowingly" anywhere in my statement, and in fact I have no earthly idea whether the countless examples [1][2][3][4] of malware being served via ad networks on major websites was done knowingly. My guess is it wasn't? So you've got the beginnings of a straw man fallacy here, questioning an argument that I never actually made. If you'd like to learn more about why malware shows up on cross-site ad networks, there's a good quick read available at [5]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17550808 [2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse... [3] https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/01/18/google-ads-increa... [4] https://blog.fox-it.com/2014/01/03/malicious-advertisements-... [5] https://theconversation.com/why-bad-ads-appear-on-good-websi... |
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