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Originally Posted by Booyaa2001
Hi all some great tips for a newbie like myself, just a quick question with Yandex. Is it safe to use as I had a go yesterday and got some results but some of the sites look abit iffy, don’t particularly want to go where there is anything dodgy 😂
Cheers
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You are right to be cautious about visiting dodgy sites for porn and pirated pics/films - like visiting dodgy parts of town for sex, porn and stolen goods. When our brains are in "sex/porn mode" our risk assessment is dampened and there is much wishful thinking - which will be exploited by others.
There is no totally safe way. But here are some tips for mitigating risk:
- Use different browsers for porn, secure stuff, and general surfing. Don't have your email, shopping, banking tabs, Facebook open at the same time as porn. Most browsers try to prevent cross-site scripting but may not be perfect.
- Block adverts, tracking and surveillance, I like
- ublock origin
- DuckDuckGo privacy essentials
- ClearURLS
- Some of the above won't work properly with Google Chrome, because google needs to track you and sell the targeted advertizing.
- I use Firefox and am testing out the new DuckDuckGo browser (still in beta) which has many of the above add-ons built in.
- Use a private browsing window so that persistent cookies and cache are cleared when you close the private window. Like regular handwashing.
- Use a more private search engine like DuckDuckGo.
- Never download special add-ons from porn, pirate or dodgy sites.