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<blockquote data-quote="blackice" data-source="post: 976395" data-attributes="member: 79035">It isn’t much different than pirating movies. There is a cost to the transaction, but the user decides they will take the content without paying the price (in this case being served ads). The one difference being no one has the defense of saying a Blu-ray might give their player some malware, though that would be creative.I hate what ads have turned into, some sites are unusable without a blocker. And it’s a vicious cycle that sites take more bids from ad networks to make up for the rise in ad blocking. It would be interesting to see what happens if [USER=92963]@Kees1958[/USER] suggestion that the peak of ad blockers has passed is correct.I have always been very curious how prevalent&nbsp; malvertising actually is, because it mostly seems like a justification for just not being served ads outside of a few high profile cases. Also, I’ve always been curious how effective browser security extensions are at blocking malvertising, if it is served by a legitimate ad network, and no ad blocker is being used.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blackice, post: 976395, member: 79035"] It isn’t much different than pirating movies. There is a cost to the transaction, but the user decides they will take the content without paying the price (in this case being served ads). The one difference being no one has the defense of saying a Blu-ray might give their player some malware, though that would be creative. I hate what ads have turned into, some sites are unusable without a blocker. And it’s a vicious cycle that sites take more bids from ad networks to make up for the rise in ad blocking. It would be interesting to see what happens if [USER=92963]@Kees1958[/USER] suggestion that the peak of ad blockers has passed is correct. I have always been very curious how prevalent malvertising actually is, because it mostly seems like a justification for just not being served ads outside of a few high profile cases. Also, I’ve always been curious how effective browser security extensions are at blocking malvertising, if it is served by a legitimate ad network, and no ad blocker is being used. [/QUOTE]

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