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June 07, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Advertising, Malicious Advertising, Malvertising, Information Security

via Catalin Cimpanu's well crafted reportage at Bleeping Computer comes further proof of why you must (if you value your safety whilst traversing the engrossing intarwebs) block advertising and it's concommitant data-gathering code objects (cookies, LSOs, beacons, pixels and what-not) and redirections thereto. Is it any wonder Alphabet Inc.'s Google (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) is now developing adblock code for it's own browser platform - Chrome? And, now Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) will be releasing a new version of Safari with Anti-Tracking Cookie bits we well, Get on with it then.

June 07, 2017 /Marc Handelman
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