• degen@midwest.social
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    6 days ago

    Wonder how long that will stand. Also hasn’t 1337 been deemed unsafe, or is it back on good terms?

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      6 days ago

      Safe and official are not the same thing. I’m not sure there is any pirate site that is 100% safe when downloading applications. You are always taking an educated risk based on the history of the site, the moderation, the users and the application in question. It is not a good habit to think of things as clean or unclean, safe or unsafe, because circumstances can always change and you need be actively on the lookout for warning signs.

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        6 days ago

        1337x is known to host some game cracks with malicious bitcoin miners built-in. If you don’t play cracked games, maybe it’s nbd, but it still stands that you shouldn’t trust them.

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          5 days ago

          Haven’t found one yet. In general you shouldn’t trust any crack. That’s why you have to check every game with virustotal and restrict internet acces to all of them. Fitgirl posts her repacks there too.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      6 days ago

      I haven’t had a problem with it besides the click stealing malware ads that uBlock gets rid of