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.
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First Rule: don't rawdog internet, especially torrent search sites. Always use protections.
Second rule: always check if you're on the right site. It's relatively easy to find torrent search sites, but even easier to find phishing sites (i.e. sites that claims to be the original site, but they actually aren't).
The bay in particular is like a door to fucking Narnia...
It's never in the place it was last time, so bookmarks "expire" when the main site has to move, which seems to be multiple times a year
PSA: qBittorrent has a search function, no need to go to sketchy mirrors anymore.
It does? What does it search?
torrents
This checks out.
how are you using torrent sites without an ad blocker like ublock origin?
If you're browsing for torrents without a serious adblocker... why?
when you turned off your ad blocker
I'm pretty sure he wasn't using any in the first place. Time for him to use uBO.
Bro fucked a $2 whore without a condom and wonders why his pee burns
You sure you went to the real pirate bay? There's a fuckton of imitators full of crap.
🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 Always has been.
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.
thepiratebay.org ?
Use an adblocker, of course. Never had an issue.
The domain gets highjacked occasionally, same as 1337x
Use proxybay to check which links are working and use adblockers and vpn
Maybe use the search engine built into qbittorrent?
I've been using qbittorrent for ten years, and now you're telling me it has a search engine built-in?
Yep! Just need to add the appropriate plugins. This is also an easy way to access trackers whose websites have been taken down
Unofficial search plugins · qbittorrent/search-plugins Wiki - https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins
Omg. This changes everything
How did I not know this too...
20 years ago?
The front page of the official site has always been pretty clean. But if you click that search button or try to go through results without a decent ad block, they lay it on pretty thick.
Might want to scan your computer for spyware. I used to have that issue a long long time ago.
First time?
They've been like that since the dawn of piracy.
Edit: improved sentence structure
Like all websites, there are fake ones and then there are official ones.
Many will be clones of what the original website looked like.
Long, long ago