It was an interesting investigation. I tried using the same approach with
the annoying ads on the right side of Facebook pages, but it didn't work.
>
>Good!
>
>> I found the culprit in the Earthlink webmail page, thanks to a burp in
>> viewing yesterday evening. There are two instances where the HTML code is
>> calling "Google_ad" for the top banner, left tower, and right tower:
>>
>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_top_banner.jsp
>>
>> and
>>
>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_left_tower.jsp
>>
>> and
>>
>> /wam/brand/earthlink/google_ad_right_tower.jsp
>>
>> This is a somewhat innocuous function, the real culprit being
>>Google_Ads, which is downloading malware that bypasses ad blocking.
>>Yet another piece of evidence that justifies the efforts in removing
>>anything related to Google (deGoogleisation) from my machines, the
>>only exception being Google Earth on the laptop I'm presently using.
>>
>> What worries me about this is that the activity indicator for my
>>dialup dialer showed that my machine was sending data as well as
>>receiving during these periods of activity. That could very likely
>>mean that Google was using the pubads.js script as a means of harvesting
>>data, for which Google has long been suspected.
>>
>
Chris
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