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[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those website are more of a risk than torrents

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty easy to identify, quarantine, and repair threats from a browser compared to downloads.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you're connected to a webpage for 40+ minutes you're being exposed to all kinds of info stealers, trackers, cryptominers, etc.

If you just check what you're downloading is an mkv, you are pretty much risk free.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -3 points 2 months ago

Oh no! I accidentally left location services on and now they've bricked my computer with ransomware! /sarcasm