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Re: Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers

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Which other ad server and ad intermediation service would you recommend?

I don't know, I'm not in the business of specifying and choosing ad services.

I think you could name multiple competitive players in lots of areas that aren't your core business. You can't name any others in ad services because Google is a monopolist.

Re: Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know, I'm not in the business of specifying and choosing ad services.

I think you could name multiple competitive players in lots of areas that aren't your core business. You can't name any others in ad services because Google is a monopolist.

> I think you could name multiple competitive players in lots of areas that aren't your core business. You can't name any others in ad services because Google is a monopolist.

That is totally silly - What in the world makes you think I think about the advertisement industry more than the absolute minimum amount possible?

Anyway, the other options are:

- They run their own ad platform - They don't run ads

Re: Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers

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Do you have any proof that the ad was served by Google or are you just guessing? I was under the impression they had checks to prevent this.

Tons of malvertising comes through Google. When one company owns the whole space, finding just one vulnerability is enormously economically attractive.

>Tons of malvertising comes through Google.

Can you cite that as your previous accusation was already proven to be incorrect.

>When one company owns the whole space, finding just one vulnerability is enormously economically attractive.

Google doesn't own the whole space.

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