Reply to post: Re: track down the perps!

Chrome web dev plugin with 1m+ users hijacked, crams ads into browsers

Lysenko

Re: track down the perps!

I often wonder why these clowns tip off the victim by actually displaying the ads. Why not just pull them down into dev/null? There's no way an ad server can tell if there was a screen draw and it can't distinguish if XMLHttpRequest was triggered by a mouse click or a timer.

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