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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by klodolph on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:46PM (#16242748)
For ads it makes a certain amount of sense... you can put animations in the ads that are driven by JS, or make the ads interactive. Calling this "script injection" is perhaps misleading, because the JS wouldn't be running in the security context of the page it's in.
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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by jMyles on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:03PM (#16242875)
> Calling this "script injection" is perhaps misleading, because the JS wouldn't be running in the security context of the page it's in.

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but: how doesn't it run in the security context of the page?

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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by chii on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:05PM (#16242893)
presumably ads are served inside an iframe that's different from the website it's displayed on.
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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by tripzilch on Saturday January 27, 2018 @01:15PM (#16247245)
> For ads it makes a certain amount of sense... you can put animations in the ads that are driven by JS, or make the ads interactive.

Does nobody remember that Google Ads actually got popular first because they didn't allow for this kind of crap?

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Re:Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting us... by lithos on Saturday January 27, 2018 @01:51PM (#16247451)
In time all companies listen to their customers.
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