Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'ransomware' malvertising

Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by e40 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:38AM (#11297649)

If I can't use your site with an ad-blocker then bye bye ... looking at you Forbes.

I can use it with uBlock Origin and the 3rd-party filter "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek‎" turned on.

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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by parennoob on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:02AM (#11297858)

I know I can do this, but

a) I like to limit the number of random extension I install on my browser.

b) The fact that Forbes turned on an adblock-blocker shows me that they are seeing a significant revenue hit on account of adblocking, which will force them to do paywalled content sooner or later. I don't value Forbes content that much (in fact, it's often click-baity), so I'd like to wean myself off it sooner rather than later.

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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by karlshea on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @01:44PM (#11299217)

For point a, it's not another extension, it's a list of filter rules you load in uBlock Origin like all of the others on its 3rd-party filters tab.

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