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  • Wolfie Christlwchr@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 8:00 PM

    What about the advertising industry?

    It's disastrous that major ad vendors and organizations apparently were neither able to detect nor prevent the company's malicious advertising operations for years.

    Cybersecurity agencies, regulators and lawmakers in the US, Europe and other regions must urgently step in. They must investigate the involved companies and fix the systemic risks that enable malicious ad targeting.

    For example, mandate the removal of personal data from real-time ad auctions.

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  • Noavex@kolektiva.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 9:25 PM

    @wchr I worked in ad tech. To say it went "undetected" is incorrect: malicious ads & fraud were ok so long as they made money & no one important enough complained. One company I worked at made in the ballpark of 40% of their income off of fraud (refreshing ads in inactive tabs), though admittedly I was hired to reduce this (people important enough had complained). I can say with confidence through that the majority of ad impressions on the Internet are fraud.

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  • Omnivorous Narratoromnivorous_narrator@mastodon.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 1:11 PM

    @vex @wchr that… might explain why for years I have been occasionally seeing high CPU and RAM usage in some inactive tabs, much much higher than when first opened (probably not as bad as it could be thanks to uBO, but still)

    (I suppose another possibility is memory/handle leak but that doesn’t really explain the CPU usage)

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