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.
I was scrolling Lemmy earlier and saw the porn Spam. Fucking disgusting, and then for some reason I got more than 100 DMs telling me to kill myself. I don’t know if that counts but this is really not what I signed up for when joining Lemmy. I just want to scroll and see funny memes, maybe hear about or learn interesting stuff.
You gotta block what you don’t wanna see or choose an instance that has similar values to you as they’ll be defederated from a lot of shit you don’t wanna see.
did see the dickpic shit, due to not much auto moderation there are quite a few of those…
the DM thing is weird, i never got any… (other than the nicole spam) perhaps you triggered some weird person :/
You see ads? Have you tried ublockorigin?
It wasn’t an ad, it was a disgusting spam user spamming pictures of their penis everywhere.
Oh, huh, weird, misunderstood you some how. When on the all posts there are a lot of porn related ones, they aren’t hardly worth clicking on, if I want porn I can go to the porn video sites, more there than you can shake a stick at. Yeah I learned my lesson clicking on any of the nsfw ones because it might not be something you want to see.
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.
Yeah. I entered a lifestyle beyond my wildest dreams
My father in law.
