An advice from Grandma

moe90@feddit.nl to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 483 points –
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Those website are more of a risk than torrents

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

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.

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