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malvertising

noun

Etymology

Blend of malicious + advertising.

  1. derived from advertir
  2. derived from advertir
  3. inherited from advertisen
  4. suffixed as advertising — “advertise + ing”
  5. compounded as malvertising — “malicious + advertising”

Definitions

  1. Internet advertising whose real intention is to deliver malware to the viewer's computer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for malvertising. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA