I wrote this post for a friend, I’m sharing it here for anybody it might help. I got asked multiple times how I download cracked music software so I figured it’d be easier to write it down once. It’s meant for people with very low technical skills who just want to start torrenting software without major risks, and it includes a bunch of safety tips that are already known in this community.
If you have feedback, let me know and I’ll update the post.
Page does not work with JavaScript disabled. Pretty funny, for an article about how to keep your computer secure. One of the rules of keeping your computer secure is to disable JavaScript!
Well it has embedded GIFs and videos, it’s not gonna work without JS…
On a side note, people are way too paranoid about JavaScript for privacy. Browsers are much better at sandboxing and restricting webpages than they used to be. Sure, I guess only viewing static pages like it’s 1995 is better for privacy, but it’s a bit unreasonable of a tradeoff to make.
Gif and video do work with HTML only.
Both of those things work perfectly without JS. JS didn’t even exist when GIFs were first invented.
Here’s a list of security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 115. Almost all of them are only exploitable if JavaScript is enabled. Two of them, if successfully exploited, allow a malicious web page to completely take over your computer. And that’s just the vulnerabilities that were fixed in one Firefox version!
JavaScript is an extreme security threat. Enabling it for all websites is nuts.