Comment on Everyone is stealing TV
robocall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I found a website called yarrlist.net to watch movies and tv shows, and I thought it was great! but someone told me I was putting myself at risk by using it. Basically they said I shouldn’t use my bank/credit card while having those tabs open. I’m not very tech savvy so I don’t understand the risk.
rocketpoweredredneck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If you’re using firefox on desktop your tabs are sandboxed and should be isolated from each other. It is possible to break that sandboxing though.
robocall@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
From what I understand, the risk seems low and keeping Firefox up to date on updates is important. I was wondering if using a separate browser like Firefox for everything and a different browser just for yarrlist had any advantages?
rocketpoweredredneck@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I honestly wouldn’t worry that much about it, the different tabs are working in their own environments that makes it more difficult for info from one to be taken by another, if you use any basic opsec, i.e. closing unnecessary tabs, different user names/passwords, a vpn, even a freepn you should be okay. If you’re still worried about it you could use a temporary card (something like privacy.com), you could also use tor for your piracy, if it’s not the most secure browser its up there. Just be ready for slower download speeds.