>A malicious script associated with powerad.ai was just discovered on popular image boards Jow Forums and 4channel.
>The script reportedly records users’ device IDs, mines and processes data then matches those IDs to various personal accounts (e.g. Microsoft Live, Gmail, Amazon, etc).
>It injects that script into each page of 4channel, where it makes a record of a timestamp, your IP, it gets your country from that IP, the device you’re using to view it, how many visits you make on here a day, how many visits you’ve made on here in total, the thread you’re looking at and the things you click.
>It then links these to your Amazon and Google tags, which is basically the collection of data these two already have on you outside of this site, which includes your address, contact details, biography, social media, etc.
>Ironically, these scripts don’t appear on Jow Forums, just 4channel.
What the fuck, Jow Forums? How has this seemingly gone under everyone's radar? You can check for yourself right now and see scripts from powerad.ai being loaded. With uBlock Origin just check the domains. Even more reason to always be using a vpn and blocking all javascript online.
