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by nijave 463 days ago
There are malicious ads and dark patterns around ad design to trick users into clicking them. I don't think it's security in the "vulnerability" sense or "privacy" sense but more in the "phishing prevention" sense.

Think of those "click here to OPTIMIZE YOUR PC" adware junk you'd prefer anyone you provide tech support for to never see

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Those ads aren't being blocked by ublock lite?
Clients that lost uBO and I put Lite on are getting hit with malware. It may be correlation but it looks like causation.
Then you also get absolute scum bags pushing that stuff via push notifications too https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/consider-disabling-...