What is malicious? I consider any ad that has any kind of tracking to be malicous. I think they did that.

Well yes, but I mean specifically malware infections delivered by ad JavaScript.

They are talking about many ad networks allowing arbitrary JavaScript/Flash etc to be executed.

> (TIL: Germans swear by saying "Fuck!!" in English)

There were studies about this on HN. Has something to do with foreign words being stored/associated at different points inside the brain and therefor being less offensive to foreign language speakers.

The omnipresence of English explains why in Germany they swear in English instead of French, but it does not explain why they swear in English instead of German. Why swear in a different language at all?

What I'm trying to say is that that the language is different is irrelevant. It's a word that you hear ALL THE TIME, and so you use it, like all words that you hear all the time independently of the language. If you're German, those words are the German words, plus a couple of English words like "shit", "fuck", "yeah".

This is purely anecdotal, but as a German, I like "fuck" because there is no German swear word that replicates its tone of voice and conciseness. But you can rest assured that I use plenty of German swear words, too. In this industry, the more languages you can draw swear words from, the better.

Saying "shit" instead of "Scheiße", definitely sounds less rude to me.