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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.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're browsing for torrents without a serious adblocker... why?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sure you went to the real pirate bay? There's a fuckton of imitators full of crap.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thepiratebay.org ?

Use an adblocker, of course. Never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

The domain gets highjacked occasionally, same as 1337x

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

🌎 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe use the search engine built into qbittorrent?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been using qbittorrent for ten years, and now you're telling me it has a search engine built-in?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yep! Just need to add the appropriate plugins. This is also an easy way to access trackers whose websites have been taken down

Unofficial search plugins · qbittorrent/search-plugins Wiki - https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

How did I not know this too...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Omg. This changes everything

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when you turned off your ad blocker

[–] AsudoxDev 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Something like 10 or 15 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

20 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

First time?

They've been like that since the dawn of piracy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

PSA: qBittorrent has a search function, no need to go to sketchy mirrors anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does? What does it search?

[–] AsudoxDev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This checks out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit: improved sentence structure


Like all websites, there are fake ones and then there are official ones.

Many will be clones of what the original website looked like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Long, long ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Might want to scan your computer for spyware. I used to have that issue a long long time ago.