Having just fought (and thankfully, won) a week-long battle against scareware (Google calls it malvertising) appearing on Gizmag, I wanted to do a brain dump of what I’ve learned along the way.
Every time a user experiences this kind of “advertising”, it’s damaging the user’s experience, the site and its relationship with its readers, the advertising network itself and the industry as a whole – no doubt a significant percentage of AdBlock installations have been a result of scareware.
I spent some time this afternoon messing around with the Twitter API to create this list of Australian journalists on Twitter. I just did a quick scan of the people I follow, so it’s mostly tech people. If you want to be added to the list, send an @reply to @imtimhanlon or leave a comment.
After realising there was about four thousand other people named Tim Hanlon in the tech space, I decided it was time to make it a little easier to find this one, and give myself an outlet for the stuff that doesn’t fit on the other sites I’m associated with at the same time.
75 minutes later, here we are. (I love Wordpress.)
