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by sp332 3982 days ago
Yeah... mainly an ad blocker. Ads not only compete for attention with the content I want to read on a page, they use my bandwidth and increase my attack surface.
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The attack surface is actually a good point I had not thought of.
It's not just theoretical. If you want to infect users of well known web sites, buy ads on them. The major ad networks all say that they check for that but in reality they are very lax about what they run.