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[–] fouloleron@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

Look at all the peasants with no arrs.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Curious. The only winning move is not to play.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Trick question, the link is a plain blue hyoerlink near the bottom of the page you haven't scrolled to yet

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Or the download is already under way, and started once you arrived at the page

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Starts after a 25 second delay

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 53 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No matter where you click, it'll open some pop-unders for the first few clicks.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 99 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You drag the button. If it takes with it more than just a button, it is an ad.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 21 points 7 hours ago

I just hover over and read URLs if I'm not sure.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip 15 points 15 hours ago

I actually didn't know that. I would mouse over and look at the url.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 46 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's a trick question. This window is a pop-up

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago

But only the first click

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 277 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] moseschrute@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 117 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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The real download button only shows up after 30 seconds.

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 150 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Stop. Install your favorite ad blocker, like ublock origin. Refresh.

Work smarter not harder

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Back in my day, we didn't have no fancy ublock origin

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

YEA! We just kept closing popups till we got the right one!!!!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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).

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 12 points 21 hours ago

If you didn't give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 47 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly don't see one that looks right.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 20 hours ago

You click on the file name

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

In the very top right of the browser window, there should be a little 'X' button. That's the one you wanna click.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The vanilla HTML button on the bottom

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[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 152 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago

The button of a carpenter.

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[–] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

The real answer is a question - Is the timer still running ?

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The little grey button at the bottom of the screen

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But only if that’s what your OS’s native dialog buttons look like

Jpeg of a windows dialog button while you’re using Linux? That’s a trap.

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[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sorry, bub, that's a virus. It was actually the file name itself.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The ones that don't say "advertisement" under.. as a gen z that commits regular piracy

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (16 children)

There are 3 "downloads" there without advertisement written under them. Just use the most basic looking button, it's like how the holy grail is the most plain looking one.

That or just use devtools/inspect elements.

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[–] Emi@ani.social 14 points 23 hours ago

Bottom white one?

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