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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 22:56:37 JST BrianKrebs

   I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives.

   E.g, when was the last time you visited Yahoo News without a script or ad blocker installed? Or MSNBC or WaPo or virtually any major news site w/out these things? It's full frontal assault of loud videos that launch and play on their own, and pop-ups and pop-unders and 97 piece of third-party Javascript.

   So not only are they typically aiming a firehose of extraneous and distracting stuff at you, each one of those ad relationships offers the possibility of malicious ads running on your machine.

   It kind of seems like we don't talk enough about how this aspect of news websites really does turn people off of reading the news from the original source.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 23:12:22 JST Warner Crocker

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     @briankrebs News and other content has become interstitial to ads. Fill the "column inches" to have enough space for the ad inventory.

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     Chris Mackay 🇨🇦 (tantramar@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 23:24:51 JST Chris Mackay 🇨🇦

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @briankrebs It’s always been a cliché — well back into the heyday of newspapers — that reporters write the stuff that keeps the ads from touching.