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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 976313" data-attributes="member: 59283">Unfortunately &#039;support&#039; is a one-way street for publishers. They rage at users who block their ads, but good luck getting any support from them when those exact same ads are pushing malware to users. Then it&#039;s all &#039;Oh it&#039;s not our responsibility. We only display the ads.&quot;If I paid someone to create a poster with &quot;Kill the elderly&quot; on it and hung it in my living room window, when the cops show up to arrest me for promoting violence, me saying &quot;Oh you can&#039;t arrest me. I didn&#039;t create the poster, I&#039;m only displaying it.&quot; isn&#039;t going to fly, so why should publishers be treated any different?The way I see it, if publishers can&#039;t guarantee the ads being displayed on their site are free of malicious code, or are unable/unwilling to offer compensation to anyone affected by any malicious ads that crop up, then users shouldn&#039;t be chastised for taking measures to protect themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 976313, member: 59283"] Unfortunately 'support' is a one-way street for publishers. They rage at users who block their ads, but good luck getting any support from them when those exact same ads are pushing malware to users. Then it's all 'Oh it's not our responsibility. We only [I]display[/I] the ads." If I paid someone to create a poster with "Kill the elderly" on it and hung it in my living room window, when the cops show up to arrest me for promoting violence, me saying "Oh you can't arrest me. I didn't [I]create [/I]the poster, I'm only [I]displaying [/I]it." isn't going to fly, so why should publishers be treated any different? The way I see it, if publishers can't guarantee the ads being displayed on their site are free of malicious code, or are unable/unwilling to offer compensation to anyone affected by any malicious ads that crop up, then users shouldn't be chastised for taking measures to protect themselves. [/QUOTE]

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