[tom_cat]

Originally Posted by anonjohn

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.

Agree with everything you said. I also agree with the good antivirus protection and malwarebytes is great and they can be found FREE. DuckDuckGo is my home page for searching and I also use FireFox. Most browsers also have extensions you can download and I would recommend using a VPN which is virtual private network so they don't pick up your IP address.