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Look at all the peasants with no arrs.
Curious. The only winning move is not to play.
Trick question, the link is a plain blue hyoerlink near the bottom of the page you haven’t scrolled to yet
Or the download is already under way, and started once you arrived at the page
Starts after a 25 second delay
non, you wait for the donwload to start automatically, if not, update all your adblocks and try the button with no url when you hover over it
bottom most
100%
No matter where you click, it’ll open some pop-unders for the first few clicks.
You drag the button. If it takes with it more than just a button, it is an ad.
I just hover over and read URLs if I’m not sure.
This is the real answer
I actually didn’t know that. I would mouse over and look at the url.
It’s a trick question. This window is a pop-up
But only the first click
Millennial here. The true answer is None Of The Above. The actual download button is just a blue link somewhere on the page, probably among all of the torrent info.
Gen Z here. I usually look for the magnet link to copy paste into my torrent client. I think that bypasses the download button problem.
I might be biased against that from the ages of dialup, where torrenting almost always ended up failing if you also seeded, but you felt guilty if you leeched.
This is the correct answer. It might also be the filename shown. If you can put your cursor over that it might become underlined. All big Download buttons are not to be trusted.
It always irked me back in the day when cnet was still a useful source because they modeled their buttons that way. Then they eventually became the garbage the site appeared to be at first glance.
Came here to say this. Closest onscreen would probably be the grey “Download or Watch” button not trying to get your attention in any way.
“or watch” is a red flag.
Yeah, the yellow link above that is more likely due to that, the shape is also a bit unusual.
But that’s why the link preview text exist.
The real download button only shows up after 30 seconds.
The file name looks like a link, it’s at least a slightly different color than the other text.
Stop. Install your favorite ad blocker, like ublock origin. Refresh.
Work smarter not harder
Why was it ever disabled to start with?
Every time a dodgy site has asked me to disable it, it still doesn’t work, and now you have a bunch of tracking cookies and has to look at ads for other porn sites.
Back in my day, we didn’t have no fancy ublock origin
YEA! We just kept closing popups till we got the right one!!!
That moment of panic when a DOS window appears and then disappears.
Time to unplug the network cable, reboot to safe mode, and dig out that copy of Malwarebytes Antimalware.
And then your friend sends you a link to the “You Are An Idiot” gag site so you just have to reboot.
Forgot to turn the volume down, instant regret as the speakers on the family computer scream ”HI EVERYBODY I’M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO”
Some people posted those weird links where its a jumpscare
Ahhh that little cursor maze where it gets super small a few levels in lol
PTSD trigger intensifies
I remember that time. Unlock saved me. Now every time I borrow a computer I have ten or 20 seconds to find the “right button” knowledge from the depth of my mind.
No lie, this is how I learnt keyboard hotkeys as a kid. I’d click middle mouse to open a link on the site in a new tab, with my hand ready to go on Ctrl + W. The nanosecond I detected a fake site, I’d closer that sucker and move onto the next link.
Oh boy did I bring a lot of viruses on my computer in the process in the name of efficiency & greed (& hefty amount of stupidity).
About 2 years ago I spent most of a Christmas sorting out my MIL’s new laptop, uninstalling junk and whatnot, and I tossed ublock origin on there. A few days ago I came back to sort out the Realtek audio drivers which uninstalled themselves via Windows Update. I find she has an entirely different laptop now, branded as"Acemagic" but through the magic of forced Microsoft Sign-in ublock origin synced to Edge on this new laptop, and there was no crapware installed despite the laptop clearly being in use for about 6 months already!
TL;DR install ublock origin on your parents computers to save yourself some trouble down the line
If you didn’t give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?
Even with uBlock Origin, some pirate sites still have this problem because the ads either are not typical ad elements or are not in the block list. Very common with sites that host pirated android apps, in my experience.
Yes but it does solves the pop up issue completly.
Now that you say it, I haven’t seen a popup in years. They feel like a distant nightmare now.
Install Radarr and avoid torrent websites completely.
I honestly don’t see one that looks right.
You click on the file name
In the very top right of the browser window, there should be a little ‘X’ button. That’s the one you wanna click.
The vanilla HTML button on the bottom
“Download or watch” implies that is a link to a streaming service.
The button of a carpenter.
Beat me to it
The real answer is a question - Is the timer still running ?
