Adblockers are a must with those sites, but also if you search for torrents using QBittorrent you don't have to visit them at all.
Yeah, a lot of the internet is a mess without adblocking. It’s honestly impressive how trash some sites look.
I use a VM to do any pirate stuff. It complicates things forensically and fuck the feds with a cactus.
If I get anything bad on the VM, I can just revert to a snapshot.
Furthermore, I dump everything in an encrypted NAS. Make everything as difficult for law enforcement as possible. I have it all pretty seamless on my actual set up. My bare metal machine never touches the underworld. I don't even come here in my PC.
Virtual Box is free and effective. You can paste VM Ware, which has some nice features and might be a bit easier to use. Microsoft Hyper-V is ass.
I used to use ghostery but something compelled me to stop several years ago.
It tracks what ads get blocked and sells that data to advertisers. Ublock origin completely supersedes it.
:agony-minion: lmao did not know that about ghostery
something something The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors
god bless gorhill/ubo
My setup is Firefox with Ghostery, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin , and NoScript Security Suit (and Bypass Paywalls Clean, usefull but not security related)
could you explain, as if I'm a kid, what each of these things do?
the only one I use is uBlock, and I just think of it as "adblocker"
All of my weekend relaxers have kicked in so I don't have enough active brain cells to be coherent. I'll get back to you in the morning unless some one else can tag in for me.
