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Stop. Install your favorite ad blocker, like ublock origin. Refresh.
Work smarter not harder
Back in my day, we didn't have no fancy ublock origin
YEA! We just kept closing popups till we got the right one!!!!
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.
I remember that time. Unlock saved me. Now every time I borrow a computer I have ten or 20 seconds to find the "right button" knowledge from the depth of my mind.
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).
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
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.
If you didn't give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?
Install Radarr and avoid torrent websites completely.