The Ad-Blocking Hacker Making Your Browser More Paranoid
▻http://www.wired.com/2016/05/meet-ad-blocking-hacker-making-browser-paranoid
We’ve lost control of our web browsers. Sure, we tell them what sites to load. But after that, browsers do the bidding of someone else’s server, executing code that could, for all we know, install malware on our phones and computers to spy on our every digital move. And sometimes they do. In 2009, The New York Times inadvertently served an ad that redirected readers to a page claiming that their computers were already infected with malware. It urged them to download fake antivirus software (...)