Quote:If ads were a serious security problem then big enterprises would have been among the very first to have ad blockers in place. Enterprises have A LOT more to lose than any private person.
Yet I have never experienced nor heard that this is common practice. In my other life I'm working for a company that is nothing short of mad about internal IT security and ads are not blocked. So you really think that you know more about web security than the combined security departments of the Fortune 500?
<div>I've surfed the internet since the dawn of time and never caught a single problem from web browsing (emails are a different topic).
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Is this what it comes down to?
Of course Klaus, you certainly know a lot more of whatever it takes to operate a website than I do.
However, in my other life, I am a member of a team developing and operating a large (I mean a LARGE)
remote-service platform for a big player in the top 500 ... and, yes, derived from that, I can without
any understatement say, I do indeed know a little bit about security issues. We have about 300.000
systems connected to our platform (each of these of a value between a few thousand bugs and
many millions).
And to the other thing you appear to have never heard of ... how easy do you think it is to inject
junk into the farms that ad-distrubutors use and from which they feed the readers of all platforms
that allow the distribution of ads by just refering/including stuff from other websites.
How do you think, the really big networks of private computers that silently participate
in massmailing of spam or DDOS attacks (without the knowledge of their owners) were build?
By sending personal invitations by mail? Get reasonable! A good share of these computers were
infected by malware injected via malicious ads ... not genuine ads by the original ad-provider
however by malware that uses this channel. By forcing your readers to allow this
channel unfiltered, you are not making their lives easier.
Rainer
PS ... I already used Tcp/Ip years before there was such a thing as a world-wide-web.