Large Malvertising Campaign Takes on Yahoo!

And this is why adblock will never go away no matter how much
sites beg. If website owners are not willing to properly vet each ad
that is being displayed, then I will not take the risk of allowing them
through.

This has been accepted as the only solutions for firewalls also.
Remember in the past when firewalls functioned on a black list basis?
they had to be constantly updated and hardly ever worked. They then
moved to a white list method, and now they work well.

For those that use advertisements on their site, if you want them
unblocked by the users, then meet them half way, and prove that you are
properly vetting each ad.

If the ad is for software, prove that you have clicked on it, and installed the software.

Other ads requiring a purchase, the owner should have at least clicked
on the ads and browsed around the site using IE with all plugins
enabled.

If they do not feel comfortable doing that, then they shouldn’t feel comfortable putting the ad on their website.

If they feel they must have the ads,, and do not feel like putting in
the work to ensure that they are safe, then they should have an
agreement where if you get infected with any advertisement, then the
site owner is responsible for paying to fix the issue, as well as
recovering the users data in the case of ransomware.

TV ads can damage your tv. One example is when the broadcaster makes certain ads louder then the rest. It may damage your tv speakers.
Who knows, with the advancement in the smart tv’s….

While I feel similarly that websites should be held responsible for the ads on their sites, the scenario you present is flawed. From the 3rd paragraph, you seem to indicate that if websites properly vetted each ad, you would then be willing to turn off adblock, thus restoring revenue to the sites you visit when you are presented with those ads. But how many of the millions of websites would have to properly vet their ads before you would turn yours off? Just the “big” sites or all the sites in the world? Would you constantly switch it off and on based on the site you were visiting? The reason I ask, is that most people I know that have been pushed to the point where they run adblock, probably won’t turn it back on even if 95% of the sites in the world vetted their ads, and they won’t want the added headache of keeping track of which sites do/don’t vet their ads. Additionally, they have grown accustomed to not seeing ads at all.

Then we are in agreement my friend.

10’s of hours to fix HP5660 printer. Finally, resorted to on-line, help. Twice!! first tech could not fix it.second tech did. Never thought Manufacturer’s web/live help was risky. WRONG. Received a home call from “Jenny” two days later. She wanted to help “Sue” fix her machine. Sue was the name used on live chat!! What part of my computer needs fixing, I asked? “Jenny” hung up.
The hack (HP access into my computer) was clear, name used Sue, knew machine down, knowledge of phone number. Second download said microsoft ……. including a green check at the end. Asked why the microsoft site was not accessed? We have our own copy…..yeah right.

Very angry at HP’s trash wasting my hours. Printer took a week to work.
Angrier at live fixing of my machine opened a direct line to hack. (malware + Eset didn’t pick it up)
HP should find out why their software is compromised. Why the allowance of tech entry through their website.(ME)..allowed hackers into the guts of my machine also? Since the malware is not detectable..
I am thinking of rebuilding the machine (chip rebuild). Find out what’s in my machine and HP should fix it. Hackers are getting good to get past me. Sigh…