When did the Pirate Bay become full of malvertising? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 6 days 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] 62 points 6 days ago

The bay in particular is like a door to fucking Narnia...

It's never in the place it was last time, so bookmarks "expire" when the main site has to move, which seems to be multiple times a year

[-] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but Narnia in this case always has its entrance documented on Wikipedia.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And a treasure map

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