An Israeli surveillance technology firm has run a large-scale operation to infect mobile phones with spyware using online advertisements to hack the devices, researchers said on Thursday.
Here is a bit more information that might help, I posted this in privacy too.
I run my own DNS based ad blockers, and use modded apps for platforms that enforce ads through their own domain, precisely because of this.
What I find insane is that websites STILL try to use ad networks that have been proven time after time to be malicious actors and/or intentionally enabling malicious actors. We should really go back to the good old times of the internet where advertisers went to websites directly and had no middlemen holding their palms - also no JS, no scripting, no other BS, you get a fixed size banner where you can have an image and a URL redirect. With GIFV being a thing, you can render a full HD animated advert into a “GIF” that 99% of browsers will still play, but pose no danger to the end user.
Or fuck it, I might even start such a business. Better rates, user friendly ads, no fucking Zioni spyware crap.
Well GIFS take up more space on servers than simple text too.
That’s… not the point. No ad today is a “simple text” block. It’s tons of JS (I’ve seen ads pull in 50-70kB of packed/minified JS), high res graphics and animations, videos, and so on.
I responded to the wrong thread but thanks for sharing lol.