↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social
And then websites wonder why people use adblocks.
"The moment [the ad] is rendered, their device can be hacked, so there's really no defence against this, short of not using a smart phone or [not] connecting to the internet"... "
"They can turn on the camera, the microphone, and track someone's location, so it's kind of like God-like capabilities"
cbc.ca
'Recipe for disaster': Israeli firm used ads to enable espionage, report says | CBC News
An Israeli advertising agency has placed ads seen by millions of internet users that have left them open to spyware attacks, according to a new report from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
