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Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware
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Are we back in 1995? This should be common knowledge.
Blocking ads to avoid their malware was the #1 reason to have adblocker.
Actually it's not really a problem anymore. Browsers have become probably the most secure softwares on your computer.
0days for browsers are crazy expensive. Unless you're targeted by state actors you have nothing to worry about.
No, no they did not.