(Please note that QueenScreen claims no legal expertise and makes no legal assertions of its own.) * Besides information provided on the movie hosting sites (Crackle, TubiTV, VUDU, etc.), here are some online articles about the trustworthiness and legality of various video hosting services:, ,,. (Fortunately, ads on mainstream hosts aren’t of the “random” popup sort, but typically are streaming videos from national brands and recognized local companies.) Videos on several free mainstream video hosts (Crackle, TubiTV, etc.) will not start if AdBlock is on. AdBlock Plus is a useful tool that may (or may not) block many such ads, but: It appears that some advertising services allow unmonitored ads from pretty much anyone who’ll pay. Note that the malware threats come from some of the random pop-ups supplied through outside ad-trafficking services, not directly from the indexed video hosts. WARNING! DON’T EVER Download ANYTHING from any random pop-up ad - No browser “updates,” no “privacy” promises, nothin’!Īrticle: “infected by digital std’
