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I've decided to try out some games I don't know if i want to pay for yet, so i went to the megathread and it suggested Game Bounty. Whenever I go to download a game on their website, I get redirected to filecrypt. Whenever I press a button, it redirects me to a random website that wants me to click some button. When I left/right click anywhere, it directs me to some crazy long aliexpress link. What the hell is going on? https://imgur.com/a/gl9oEHZ https://imgur.com/a/KYrZNQj

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[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago

Use uBlock Origin, you're being redirected by ads. I tested downloading Icarus just now and this is where the links led to. gamebounty -> filecrypt -> datanodes. Datanodes started the download, ~30GiB 7zip file. I didn't get any ads or redirects using Ublock Origin and a Firefox based browser.

I would suggest reading the very top of the megathread, the part that says" Not so fast sailor! Do this first"

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

ads are redirecting you

[–] hamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I did read it and thought "Vivaldi's adblock never failed me before, check". I suppose there's a first time for everything.