If you're browsing for torrents without a serious adblocker... why?

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.

how are you using torrent sites without an ad blocker like ublock origin?

thepiratebay.org ?

Use an adblocker, of course. Never had an issue.

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.

The domain gets highjacked occasionally, same as 1337x

Use proxybay to check which links are working and use adblockers and vpn

🌎 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

Maybe use the search engine built into qbittorrent?

when you turned off your ad blocker

Something like 10 or 15 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.

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.

20 years ago?

PSA: qBittorrent has a search function, no need to go to sketchy mirrors anymore.

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.

Might want to scan your computer for spyware. I used to have that issue a long long time ago.