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.
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.
If you’re browsing for torrents without a serious adblocker… why?
Funny how many people think I don’t have ad-blockers. I have several.
You just need one: uBlock Origins.
If you’re still seeing ads then the adblocker isn’t turned on.
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.
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
A misconfigured filter can break uBlock Origin, so make sure your filters aren’t broken.
how are you using torrent sites without an ad blocker like ublock origin?
Bro fucked a $2 whore without a condom and wonders why his pee burns
🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 Always has been.
Use an adblocker, of course. Never had an issue.
Yep, and I use multiple. Whatever was going on was super over the top. Someone else suggested the site had been highjacked. That would make sense.
even hijacked it would still block stuff if your blocker was worth anything.
No, it wouldn’t make sense. The official piratebay.org domain has never been hijacked, not even governments have managed to seize it
PSA: qBittorrent has a search function, no need to go to sketchy mirrors anymore.
when you turned off your ad blocker
Maybe use the search engine built into qbittorrent?
I’ve been using qbittorrent for ten years, and now you’re telling me it has a search engine built-in?
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
Omg. This changes everything
How did I not know this too…
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.
20 years 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.
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.
Might want to scan your computer for spyware. I used to have that issue a long long time ago.
Long, long ago