• moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    1 day ago

    The situation is so concerning, he notes, because there isn’t much that people can do to protect themselves from zero-click ad attacks other than blocking ads as thoroughly as possible on all websites and platforms—a fact that intelligence agencies like the NSA and CIA seem to know all too well.

    Or disable JavaScript

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      6 hours ago

      Well yes but no with html5 a lot of JavaScript functions are now possible with html alone so a number of stuff like click or core jacking or even SQL injections into local databases are now possible with html5 even with JavaScript disabled