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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

don't recall ever seeing ads that ship malware

How old are you?

i commit quite a bit of tomfoolwery on my work device

That might be because your work device is protected by policies and applications installed by syssec team.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Imagine them getting teleported back to the days of Limewire's mp3.exes, pop-up ads, pop-under ads, audio ads, moving ads, activex bullshit, drive-by malware not even needing interaction, and...

BonziBuddy too, can't forget that. It's so cute, it can't be malicious! I'm going to install it on all my office computers, what's the harm?

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

curiously, the only time i've ever gotten infected (besides wannacry) was through a torrent