I can kinda see it happening on mainstream internet, on YouTube etc. with witless non-nerds but I’m surprised to see it in places that inherently require one to be a tiny bit internet savvy, like Lemmy. I get that getting a bot spam the same message isn’t exactly resource intensive but i still wonder if the cost-effort-return ratio is worth it.
I don’t see much spam or ads, thx to ad-blocking and most likely thx to a narrow selection of websites I allow myself to visit, and I never click on ads: this ad-filled version of the Internet only deserves my disdain, certainly not a second of my time.
It’s been a while but I would do it via tor so the JS wouldn’t fire and it usually would throw an error saying hackers have your PC or we have seen errors and run this tool to fix it.
My bad, I probably should’ve clarified that I meant clicking on it thinking that there’s a respectable porn site on the other end lol but I actually don’t recall ever clicking them, even by accident, so fun to hear there isn’t anything more sophisticated there than just “hey, download this totally not suspicious .exe”. Have you ever tried running those tools on a secure computer?
Gods no. With sandbox escapes and VM detection it too easy to let it wild even with no nic attached.
Yes, it’s dumb shit that gets you to some onlyfanesque page or some paid premium porn page.
I mean, someone has to have, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it anymore.
I have out of curiosity (take precautions, use tor, etc etc), and they’re usually either a fake “1337 Hax0rs have your data” or some weird masturbate on cam with someone (that’s totally not a prerecorded video!) Type of thing.
My father in law.
Yeah. I entered a lifestyle beyond my wildest dreams
