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

  • AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 days 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"

  • hamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

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