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"Millions of phones exposed to Israeli spyware operation through online ads" (www.politico.eu)
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An Israeli surveillance technology firm has run a large-scale operation to infect mobile phones with spyware using online advertisements to hack the devices, researchers said on Thursday.

Here is a bit more information that might help, I posted this in privacy too.

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[–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Lol y'all still get ads?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah... My company blocks the ability to install extensions so no ad blocking. I can't even use my DNS adblocker when working from home since the computer can only be online using the company VPN

    It's been kind of absurd seeing what the internet looks like without an adblocker and I don't understand why anyone would choose not to use one

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