Forbes, ad blockers and malware

Posted by jimlynch on Jan 9, 2016 2:00 AM EDT
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If you’ve been following the news about ad blockers, you might have heard about Forbes asking its readers to turn off ad blockers to access its content. Apparently the site promised to provide an “ad light” version of its site that provides less ads or something like that. Well one guy, Brian Baskins, turned off his ad blocker and promptly got some pop-under malware on the Forbes site.

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