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Sample bias here. But this hasn't happened to me since the early 2000's. I do not have any ad blocker, no ad bothers me, unless its an adult site, they've gone really crazy there.


I got forcibly redirected on a baseball statistics site multiple times while not using Adblock (my mobile phone which didn't have it). It happens all the time.


Then I guess you are a lucky person. Read up on one of the many ad based exploit toolkits[1].

It took a crypto malware to convince a company I was working with to install uBlock. No more ads, no more flash, no more ransomware.

[1] https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/ultimate-guide-angler-explo...




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