Yeah, But Isn't That Somebody Else's Problem? Dept.

Monica at Mozilla: Tracking Protection for Firefox at Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2015

Advertising does not make content free. It merelyexternalizes the costs in a way that incentivizes malicious or incompetent playersto build things like Superfish,infect1 in 20 machines with ad injection malware, andcreate sites that require unsafe pluginsand take twice as many resources to load, quite expensive in terms of bandwidth, power, and stability. It will take a major force to disrupt this ecosyst...