[walletdrainer]

Feels like the author is using Google for the first time? This has been a feature as long as the ads have.

You can literally find this exact same blog post from approximately 20 years ago. Absolutely nothing has changed since then!

Well, I lied. A lot has changed. Drive-by attacks are gone, largely thanks to Google. 15 years ago you would’ve been hacked immediately after you clicked the ad.

[dngray]

No they say there they block ads, and I do as well, so maybe they're not used to seeing this kind of crap.

[walletdrainer]

This phenomenon literally predates adblockers, kind of a poor excuse for the breathless tone.