Here another reason why you should use a good ad blocker like uBlock Origin.
Maladvertising campaigns rely on advertisements to spread malware, such as infostealers and certain types of ransomware. Microsoft reported one such campaign affecting almost 1 million Windows devices that visited illegal streaming websites.
Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated “malvertising” campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said.
The campaign began in December, when the attackers, who remain unknown, seeded websites with links that downloaded ads from malicious servers. The links led targeted machines through several intermediary sites until finally arriving at repositories on Microsoft-owned GitHub, which hosted a raft of malicious files.
Although these GitHub repos were taken down, I am not sure if that should had been the only solution besides “strengthening” endpoint protection like the initial Microsoft threat intelligence report recommended.
Even though the security and privacy benefits are clear, adblockers will only hurt the bottom line of these companies