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Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 hours agoAnd that sandbox is secure, right? Aside from the fact that advertizing is unconsentual and drives consumerism, the main reason i have all ads everywhere blocked with no exceptions is because im not about to have ransomware injected onto my device because google doesnt vet their advertizers. Im down to screw the advertizers, but I dont want them having any access to my hardware or my software quite honestly.
Not a computer scientist, but sandboxes have always confused me. Software level i can understand, but it is still physcially running in your machine so i would imagine there is malware that could still effect your hardware.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Adnauseum covers the situation of how and why their solution at length in this research paper linked on their website if you’d like to get the meat and potatoes.
But to be brief, from my knowledge of how the software handles webpages (at least from my limited background as an Electrical Engineering student), the sandbox is only utilized to load enough resources to register the click to the advertising service by the website - you aren’t sent to the redirected site/content, and apart from the image of the ad being able to be seen from the vault, no external content is loaded. This is a safe way of handling things, especially since the sandbox is not granted access to the full privileges provided to you, the user.