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

submitted 2 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 135 points 2 months 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).

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months 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

[-] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 42 points 2 months ago

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

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And a treasure map

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

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

[+] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -13 points 2 months ago

Funny how many people think I don't have ad-blockers. I have several.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 2 months ago

I mean you're complaining about seeing popup ads on TPB. Sure doesn't sound like you have an ad blocker.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

Kolanak going in for the kill.

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

If you're using a recent version of Chrome, Google has stunted the capabilities of many ad blockers. Suggest using another browser and/or using something that catches this stuff before it gets to your browser like a properly configured pihole. Otherwise, configure your ad blockers more aggressively, especially for sites that are less likely to screen their ads.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You just need one: uBlock Origins.

If you're still seeing ads then the adblocker isn't turned on.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

then how are you seeing ads? something smells fishy on your end. we, who use good ad blockers, don't see the shit you described even on fake sites

[-] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like you have several pretty fucken useless adblockers, just get 1 that works, ie uBlock origin.

Several adblockers and youre still seeing ads smh

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

A misconfigured filter can break uBlock Origin, so make sure your filters aren't broken.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 59 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 55 points 2 months ago

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

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

thepiratebay.org ?

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

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago

The domain gets highjacked occasionally, same as 1337x

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

[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 26 points 2 months 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.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

🌎 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Maybe use the search engine built into qbittorrent?

[-] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months 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

[-] useyourmainfinger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

How did I not know this too...

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Omg. This changes everything

[-] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

when you turned off your ad blocker

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

Something like 10 or 15 years ago.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months 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.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months 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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

20 years ago?

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

First time?

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

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

It does? What does it search?

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

torrents

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

This checks out.

[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] azn03@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] finley@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Long, long ago

this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024

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