content: Malvertising disappears  That'd be nice. Infected advertisements have been around almost as long as web advertising networks. The people operating these networks have never had any incentive to protect the privacy and security of ad consumers. There is no significant momentum for laws requiring them to. From their perspective, any time/money spent preventing exploitation of their networks by bad actors is wasted because it does nothing to improve their profits and there are no legal obligations. I used to feel sympathetic toward content creators who depend on ad networks, but no longer. Crowd sourcing is providing many content creators a far better income than they ever earned working for advertising supported publishers. Premium subscriptions and pay walls may seem less than ideal, but they are far preferable to what we've had until now. Fuck the advertising network middle man. Fuck him right in the ass.