Will I get a virus from movie-web.app?
from idkhow@lemmy.ml to piracy@lemmy.ml on 17 Jan 2024 02:14
https://lemmy.ml/post/10646238

So I’ve heard that this is the best website for watching movies, as it doesn’t have any ads and doesnt redirect you anywhere or anything like that. However, the site plays videos from other sites, which do contain malware, and I’ve heard that you can get a virus from simply playing a video online. So while movie-web itself won’t give you a virus, will playing a movie on it give you one (assuming you don’t have an adblocker)? Thanks.

#piracy

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scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jan 2024 03:22 next collapse

It’s open source check for yourself

github.com/movie-web/movie-web

driveway@lemmy.zip on 17 Jan 2024 13:27 next collapse

That’s not what OP is asking.

scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jan 2024 17:13 collapse

And they can check the source code himself and if they don’t like what they see they can move on.

NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml on 17 Jan 2024 17:41 collapse

wtf yo, not everyone’s a nerdy programmer like you.

Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 2024 18:09 next collapse

As someone who knows sweet fuck all about programming but has been cruising the internet since dail up as well as pirating stuff long before most users here were even a glimmer of hope in their daddy’s testicles, this “just fucking read the code you idiot” mentality is just how it is here…and they wonder why the rest of the world won’t join them. Assholery in a tech sense is Lemmy.

driveway@lemmy.zip on 17 Jan 2024 19:20 next collapse

Its not even about that. The sites they serve the videos from are not on that repo.

unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone on 17 Jan 2024 18:01 collapse

Fine. Live in ignorance if you find being less intelligent something to be proud of

NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml on 18 Jan 2024 17:06 collapse

I have a mental block when it comes to learning programming. Been wishing to learn it since ages, but even with a teacher, I just couldn’t progress far.

beatle@aussie.zone on 17 Jan 2024 06:26 collapse

The link is helpful, the “check for yourself” is not.

Clearly OP is in the beginner camp and just learn computer science and then a programming language is orders of magnitude harder than the yes/no responses they are expecting here.

davel@lemmy.ml on 17 Jan 2024 05:35 collapse

Videos don’t contain malware because videos aren’t software.

It’s theoretically possible that a video will take advantage of a security flaw in a video player, including a browser video player, but I’m not aware of such cases having occurred. As long as you keep your software up to date, it’s probably not worth worrying about.