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
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"
Honestly, any pirating resource that’s worth anything is going to recommend using Firefox with uBlock Origin. Even if you set it up as your pirating-only browser, it’s the only way to be safe from malicious ads and other malware on these sites.
ads are redirecting you
I did read it and thought “Vivaldi’s adblock never failed me before, check”. I suppose there’s a first time for everything.
