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Post your experiences with this frequent scam!

 

My best friend was trying to download Pixelmon for Minecraft and clicked one of those. His dad had to reinstall OSX Mavericks after that.

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im really good at finding the correct download button ;)

hovering over the link shows the URL and I can see if it is the file im trying to download or if its a link to something else

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im really good at finding the correct download button ;)

hovering over the link shows the URL and I can see if it is the file im trying to download or if its a link to something else

 

That's wut I do!

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Adblock + disable for certain sites = no problemo

Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

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Adblock + disable for certain sites = no problemo

This is the sole reason I got adblocker. That, and sites with pop-up ads.

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

Adblock can be disabled on certain sites. I personally have mine disabled for Youtube and certain Twitch Streamers.

 

 

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

 

Adblock + disable for certain sites = no problemo

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I HATE website that put those type of fake download buttons on them.
I've often run into a site that had at least 5 huge green download buttons/images, all around the page, and none of them led to the actual download, the actual download was a simple hyperlink "Download" at the very bottom of the page. And of course, if you clicked on the download buttons, it would try to download a small .exe, that immediately gets flagged by any decent anti virus...

 

It's sites like that, that justify the existence of adblocks, that and sites with auto playing music&videos ads/popup ads/malvertising/ads that take up 90% of a webpage... hiding legitimate content with fake contents...

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You can use a link checking plugin (as long as it's a legit one) to check stuff with something like ixquick proxy, or use a link expander first if they;re super sneaky... but yeah, as long as they have the hover tag working it's quick and easy..

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

Stop being an anti-Adblock white knight because you know YouTube pays jack shit to LMG

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I check where the link directs to before clicking on it, cause it's so damn obvious

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

Just whitelist it for youtube channels you like 

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I use Adblock on all sites except Youtube and hover over the button to see where it links to.

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Was downloading minecraft (Aged 13) decided to go to some dodgy site instead of the official one.

2 Hours later, my dad fresh installed windows and downloaded a proper copy of minecraft. And i was up and running.

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

Just remember, guilting people into not doing something they are already doing when they know the consequence is a good way to get people to despise you.

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most fake download buttons are ads, just turn on adblock on download sites, mostly though when you see them you deserve them, because they only show up on the darkest corners of the internet.

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I usually hover over each button, then the url it leads to will pop up in the lower-left corner of my browser without having to click on anything. Find the one that's the most relevant (usually the previous site or Mediafire/Dropbox) and you're good to go.

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If you don't use an Adblocker it gets easier to see which button is legitimate - it's usually in the centre of a sea of adverts!

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I tried to download some XML tag editor and it redirected me to a page that said: YOUR COMPUTER HAS PORN VIRUS PLEASE CALL (some number) TO TALK TO MICROSOFT ABOUT THIS ISSUE.  I use a MacBook for browsing LTT, YouTube, and iTunes.  Not windows

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Just whitelist it for youtube channels you like 

How do you whitelist channels with Adblock? I thought you could only whitelist websites as in all of YouTube itself.

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Not a download button, but crystal disk test thing put some lavasoft shit on my pc that was really damn hard to remove, frickin scumbag developers.

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Not a download button, but crystal disk test thing put some lavasoft shit on my pc that was really damn hard to remove, frickin scumbag developers.

 

I have Crystal Disk Test, but it didn't come with lavasoft addons; just the testing executable

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Just remember that Adblock prevents people like Linus from getting advertising money to help sustain the business. The YouTube advertising funds alone are enough to pay for one person's full employment at Linus Media Group.

Just use his amazon code, that makes more money and cost you nothing in terms of annoyance nor money

 

So many site annoyed me with false links, It was the reason I got adblock (well that and political ads)

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Just use his amazon code, that makes more money and cost you nothing in terms of annoyance nor money

 

So many site annoyed me with false links, I was the reason I got adblock (well that and political ads)

 

I personally use Blur (formerly DoNotTrackMe) by Abine. It's really good and hasnt failed to function.

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