Re:PageFair: Economist hacked
by johncolanduoni on Friday November 06, 2015 @02:20AM
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Ugh. To paraphrase PageFair's website, ads keep the internet free, but the way ads are implemented today also keeps botnets around.
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Why is this so? Is this because of their use as fake traffic?
Re:PageFair: Economist hacked
by johncolanduoni on Friday November 06, 2015 @03:06AM
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That's true, but not what I was thinking of. Even big websites of some repute (like The Economist) are in the habit of letting a multitude of external agents run unrestricted JavaScript on their pages. As in this case, that power can be used to distribute exploits.