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.
PSA: qBittorrent has a search function, no need to go to sketchy mirrors anymore.
Might want to scan your computer for spyware. I used to have that issue a long long time ago.
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.
Something like 10 or 15 years ago.
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.
