If they're not going to take any responsibility for what they're attaching to their pages, then I'm not going to load their random bag of crap.
I have had an ad blocker in one form or another continuously installed since the first ad blockers appeared on the scene. And I'll always have an ad blocker installed.
That'll teach me to read the news on the work browser. Back on HN on the other browser it is!
...Which is particularly goddamn egregious for a Microsoft website to be serving.
If advertisers want me to feel the least bit bad for them and their woes, they need to take some kind of responsibility for those antics. They wanna keep that up? I hope the whole industry dies: getting a warning like that from a Microsoft website could easily have caught my grandma.
tl;dr: Fuck ad networks, fuck Microsoft.