by francopoli

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For a reader, however, there may be other reasons for using adblock than just to avoid ads. Any ad network today is indistinguishable from malware and exploit kits as I've said before, they have obfuscated js, hidden iframes, many forked redirects, invasive tracking, suspicious TLDs, control data in the URLs... Ad blockers are used as much for privacy reasons as security reasons.

If you use adblockers, AND YOU SHOULD BE, Forbes told you to disable them and even sent you to a landing page preventing you from seeing their content. Turns out Forbes' ad network was serving up malicious ads that were infecting people's PC's and possibly phones. Adblocking is a critical security tool, and strongly suggest everyone use at least one.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

https://adblockplus.org/

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

And if you really want to lock down your browser play with Ghostery.

https://www.ghostery.com/