I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

  • Uranium3006
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    15011 months ago

    if ads were just static PNGs with a link you went to if you clicked I wouldn’t have ever bothered. but ads became a major malware and tracking risk so plugging that security hole became mandatory.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      2511 months ago

      I tried finding that website, but I can’t remember what it is. I’ve seen it use the static image advertisement. It changed on each reload too.

      But yes, that website had last update somewhere in the early 2000s.

      • @[email protected]
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        1311 months ago

        When I last used it a few years ago ExplainXKCD used static images and had a note about how they hand picked each ad to avoid any problems.

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      People are gonna say I’m being hyperbolic or crazy, but I swear that the internet died the day the first line of production Javascript was ever written.