In the age of the internet, pop-up ads are seemingly everywhere. No doubt they’re useful to the companies displaying them – they enhance visibility and can generate leads and revenue. But for the user ...

The Mac malware lurks behind sponsored search results. Clicking the ad redirects you to arc-download[.]com, a phony website that pretends to offer a Mac version of Arc. The downloaded file looks like ...

Ethan Zuckerman, known as the creator of pop-up ads, has become an outspoken critic of the very online systems his invention helped shape. Zuckerman, a professor at the University of Massachusetts ...

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