• Cool Beance@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It would be fine if it wasn’t for all the mining software that comes packaged with my downloads

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      1 year ago

      You are more likely to visit a site that has a crypto miner embeded than downloading from known scene groups.

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      1 year ago

      I presume this is in jest, but to be honest I feel like there is less risk of bad operators consuming my computing power and data when pirating than using legit services these days (ads, marketing, poor software etc…). I actually pirate content that I pay for as it gets all my content into a single location, and easily tracks what I have watched, and is better for taking it offline.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry, when I said dedicated, I meant it. Communities like this have as much information about themselves as they want out there. Reason mainly being to keep low quality users away.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, well I’ve got a lot to learn then. I was one of those that typically just hopped on The Bay, picked a regular uploader and stuck with them there, but I did not know there were stealthier communities dedicated to this. Thank you for the wake up though