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Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.

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[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An adblocker in this day and time is must for internet usage.

[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or offload them at the DNS so they dont even get to the device in the first instance.

[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do so love my Pihole. I forget how many ads are all over websites until I load up some site on a machine outside of my network.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to get a new modem/router. My arris that came with my fiber internet screws up my ability to remote connect to Plex and it won't let me set up a pihole.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

dns-based solutions don't get them all.