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Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.

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[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

Yea, that's not new. Malware in ads has been around for like a decade. None of the major ad providers have given zero fucks about it so an ad blocker is mandatory and with Google trying to make ad blocking harder to impossible it's only a matter of time until some major issues with this malware happens.

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But now they being used for targeting devices by Spyware! Another reason to hate ads.

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