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How Forbes inadvertently proved the anti-malware value of ad blockers

A security researcher found malicious ads on Forbes after following the site's policy that insists readers disable ad-blocking software.

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RetrospectRealm3010d ago

Has Forbes ever thought that forcing people to remove ad blocker possibly makes people just leave their site and not remove the ad blocker? I mean, they wouldn't get money if they let them on with an adblocker, but page views do still matter somewhat.

Anyways, I don't find this malware found in the ads all surprising. Is Google possibly to blame for this? For their Adsense program? Or maybe Forbes is running their own privately run ads.