• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 month 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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      1 month 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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        1 month 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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          1 month 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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            1 month ago

            Why do you like to use this site if you know it’s trying to abuse you? There are countless others out there.

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              1 month ago

              So far they have not proven themselves to make wise choices, or really know what they are talking about at all

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              1 month ago

              Mostly because of the amount of good quality content. But as I said, I’ve moved to radarr/sonarr so I interact with less and less.

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            1 month 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