moe90@feddit.nl to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months agoAn advice from Grandmafeddit.nlimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down120
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minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down23·4 months agoTbh I feel like downloading anime in any form is an unnecesary security risk. Theres websites that host it for free and adblockers that make them squeaky clean to visit.
minus-squarebrb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·4 months agoThose website are more of a risk than torrents
minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·4 months agoPretty easy to identify, quarantine, and repair threats from a browser compared to downloads.
minus-squareblack0ut@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·4 months agoWhen 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.
minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·4 months agoOh no! I accidentally left location services on and now they’ve bricked my computer with ransomware! /sarcasm
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 months agoThat is the most incorrect tech take I’ve heard in a very long time. Downloading MKVs and AVIs is infinitely more safe than janky ass streaming sites EVEN WITH ADBLOCKING
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoAnd the quality is so much better to boot.
minus-squareFiniteBanjolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoIf you’re using VLC to play downloaded MKV and AVIs then injected threats are far from uncommon. If a person already has a source for content they trust then go with torrents but if they don’t then it isn’t safer at all.
Tbh I feel like downloading anime in any form is an unnecesary security risk. Theres websites that host it for free and adblockers that make them squeaky clean to visit.
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
That is the most incorrect tech take I’ve heard in a very long time.
Downloading MKVs and AVIs is infinitely more safe than janky ass streaming sites EVEN WITH ADBLOCKING
And the quality is so much better to boot.
If you’re using VLC to play downloaded MKV and AVIs then injected threats are far from uncommon.
If a person already has a source for content they trust then go with torrents but if they don’t then it isn’t safer at all.
MPC or MPV >> VLC
Oof.