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.

  • Daemon Silverstein
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    First Rule: don’t rawdog internet, especially torrent search sites. Always use protections.

    Second rule: always check if you’re on the right site. It’s relatively easy to find torrent search sites, but even easier to find phishing sites (i.e. sites that claims to be the original site, but they actually aren’t).

    • @some_guyOP
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      Funny how many people think I don’t have ad-blockers. I have several.

      • @irotsoma@lemmy.world
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        720 days ago

        If you’re using a recent version of Chrome, Google has stunted the capabilities of many ad blockers. Suggest using another browser and/or using something that catches this stuff before it gets to your browser like a properly configured pihole. Otherwise, configure your ad blockers more aggressively, especially for sites that are less likely to screen their ads.

      • thermal_shock
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        221 days ago

        then how are you seeing ads? something smells fishy on your end. we, who use good ad blockers, don’t see the shit you described even on fake sites

      • darkstar
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        220 days ago

        Sounds like you have several pretty fucken useless adblockers, just get 1 that works, ie uBlock origin.

        Several adblockers and youre still seeing ads smh

  • KingJalopy
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    Bro fucked a $2 whore without a condom and wonders why his pee burns

    • @some_guyOP
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      thepiratebay.org. I won’t ask a question like this again. Even though well-meaning, everyone has assumed I don’t know what I’m doing.

      • thermal_shock
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        1721 days ago

        it sounds like you don’t. I went there with Firefox mobile and ublock origin, nothing but pb search box and some categories. NO ads or popups.

  • thermal_shock
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    3521 days ago

    how are you using torrent sites without an ad blocker like ublock origin?

    • @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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        621 days ago

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

      • EP51L0N
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        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.

  • monsterpiece42
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    Sadly almost all these comments are wrong. I work in a computer shop and we see the scam you’re talking about all the time. It happened because you unknowingly opened an ad. So you clicked on a button that looked legitimate like “download” or “next” or whatever, and that pops up full screen. The fix is a good ad blocker like ublock origin. Google’s being a piece of shit right now about ad blockers so I recommend something Firefox-based for effective ad blocking.

  • @criticon@lemmy.ca
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    The domain gets highjacked occasionally, same as 1337x

    Use proxybay to check which links are working and use adblockers and vpn

    • AsudoxM
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      I’m pretty sure he wasn’t using any in the first place. Time for him to use uBO.

  • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    821 days ago

    The front page of the official site has always been pretty clean. But if you click that search button or try to go through results without a decent ad block, they lay it on pretty thick.

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    820 days ago

    That’s why we use Radar, etc, so we don’t have to use those sites.

    If you do visit them, make sure you’re ad-blockered up the wazoo.