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A comment on Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety?.

Re:Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety? by butterfi on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:59AM (#11304737)
I just had this conversation with the director of IT yesterday. Given the rise of ransomware and malvertising, I think its absolutely time we consider ad blockers as important as anti-virus software. I realize how damaging this can/will be for content publishers, but the ad networks have nobody else to blame but themselves for how chaotic and dangerous online ad markets can be.
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Re:Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety? by nickcano on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:58PM (#11308338)
At Bromium we do complete task isolation in uVMs and use monitoring to watch what happens inside. Most customer infections we see come from ads, and they're mostly cryptoransomware. It's absurd.
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Re:Ask HN: Who else uses adblockers for safety? by snehesht on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:32AM (#11304964)
that's true but the sad thing is, it's been the case for past few years and ad gateways did little to control the abuse, they thought money > safety, now they are paying the price.
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