Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads

[shiroiushi]

Interestingly, there's a bunch of HNers who chide us and tell us we all have a moral responsibility to allow malware to be installed on our systems, because using an ad-blocker is "stealing".

[GreenVulpine]

Not exactly HNers. Most likely bots or at the very least paid shills.

[thfuran]

No, you have the moral responsibility to not steal and no inalienable right to consume all media you can get your hands on.

[robnado]

I've had phishing served to me through google ads a few times, so this hardly surprises.

[tjpnz]

Never forget that Google is all but complicit in this.

[angoragoats]

And Apple, who likely would have shipped at least a basic ad blocker on its platforms by now, were it not for the tens of billions of dollars per year that Google pays them.

[freedomben]

Why is Apple allowing Google to serve ads to Apple's customers?

[superb_dev]

You’re asking why apple doesn’t ship an adblocker in their browser?

[add-sub-mul-div]

Because Apple sells its customers' traffic to Google for billions of dollars each year.