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by dns_snek 651 days ago
Even ads on "legitimate" sites like Google and Youtube regularly direct users towards scams and malware.

There are no "safe" places where an ad blocker can be disabled because these ads aren't strictly contextual. Any ad could run on any website.

> It's not the advertisement industry's job to fight malware or to protect you from it

In other contexts we would call this "aiding and abetting".