One security researcher discusses his attempt to read a Forbes article, complete with the request to disable his adblocking software, and the resulting malware he encountered as a result. Here to show us why that is so is…well…Forbes again. The other chief impetus for them is security. The moment that question becomes relevant, it should be obvious that the problem is the ad inventory and not the adblocking software.īut of course that isn’t the only reason that people use adblockers. The general point of that post was that the reason people use adblockers generally is that sites like Forbes serve up annoying, irritating, horrible ads, such that the question of whether the site’s content is worth the hassle of enduring those ads becomes a legitimate one. We had just discussed a couple of websites, Forbes amongst them, joining the ranks of sites that were attempting to hold their content hostage over people’s use of adblockers. Mon, Jan 11th 2016 12:46pm - Timothy Geigner
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