Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites

fart_pickle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’ve never seen a DNS poisoning attack have ya? I’ve seen Google infect systems just because they looked up a particular football game, because some bad actor somehow poisoned the DNS cache.

  So no, “legit” sites aren’t always safe either.

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  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know what dns poisoning is but it usually happens on so called legit sites. Pirate sites serve you malware out of the box.

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    • Cadeillac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you would stop clicking on the ‘hot, horny single women in your area’ banners you wouldn’t have to worry about it

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      • fart_pickle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is this torrent site I use that likes to use javascript to redirect to various malicious websites on every single click. After reaching the desired amount of clicks, it start behaving like a normal, “legit” website. Just of out curiosity I checked few other torrent websites and got the same result. It got so annoying that I’m using radarr and sonarr to look for torrents.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who gets malware in 2024? Lol what

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• Cadeillac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember my first time on the internet

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah no, most “malware” is just false positive of AV software, since repacked games look pretty similiar. Wasn’t there statistics a while ago, that most malware comes from “legit” sites, especially newspapers (malvertising), by quite a margin? Hard to find now, too much noise.

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