Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months agoYou’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.
fart_pickle@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you would stop clicking on the ‘hot, horny single women in your area’ banners you wouldn’t have to worry about it
fart_pickle@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
moody@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Why do you like to use this site if you know it’s trying to abuse you? There are countless others out there.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hey everybody, this guy uses a shitty fucking site and thinks all piracy sites are bad! Definitely not confirmation bias with a tinge of ignorance
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Sounds more like sharehoster behavior to me. Btw, i get that for (legit) Sims 4 mods too.