I hadn’t been to the Pirate Bay in quite some time. I occasionally pop over to look for old videos. I went today and a big popover for a dubious software upgrade came up. Then, another saying that my system is infected and offering to clean it. That’s obviously fake, but it was blocking my access to the user interface so I wasn’t able to complete my search. Closed it. That’s unfortunate.

    • @some_guyOP
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      Yep, and I use multiple. Whatever was going on was super over the top. Someone else suggested the site had been highjacked. That would make sense.

      • thermal_shock
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        62 months ago

        even hijacked it would still block stuff if your blocker was worth anything.

      • EP51L0N
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        42 months ago

        using multiple adblockers can cause conflicts and can sometimes outright negate the functionality of all of them. ublock origin updated regularly will block all of your ads no problem, anything more than that is both redundant and somewhat harmful.