How much malware can you get from ADFLY?
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- What happens if we click every ad on ADFLY? (Malware, Fake Extensions and SCAMS!)
Today I'm going to check out monetized link shorteners, commonly used by Minecraft modders as a way of generating additional income.
Unfortunately many of these link shorteners can allow unscrupulous malvertising, and pop up ads. In this video I primarily focus on adfly.
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"McAffee should do something about this."
Well, considering literally everyone has met McAffee through an accidental installation, I don't think they give a damn.
mcafee is spamware: making you buy money for something you don't need
its scareware
mr mcafee my hero
McAfee is a virus at this point
The worst software of all time
Norton exists
hearing the name adfly in modern day is like the early/mid 2010s minecraft kid equivalent of being a war veteran on the fourth of july
For the kid from Eastern Europe earning monthly 150-200 usd from adfly, well it was a blessing. When I was 13 back in 2010, I made monthly a minimum wage in my country for over a year. My best holidays as a kid 😊
actually tho lmao, pirating minecraft pocket edition and seeing that stupid fucking bee gave me chills
*vietnam war meme but instead with Adfly sponsored ads popping up everywhere*
IKR
R.I.P adfly
I swear to god if I see one more of those “Click Allow Notifications to confirm you're not a bot” then I will just throw my computer away
ikrrrrr
It happens to me as well. I just wanted to let the website rot.
I remember on an older phone when I used to click allow and the kind of notifications I would get
There have thankfully been ways to bypass it over the years.
FR! One time, I saw one of those notifications on my school chromebook, and then got adware ):
anyone who's ever tried to download sims 4 cc has experienced the hell of adfly
adfly is the bane of game modding. It's a parasite to both Sims AND Minecraft 💀💀
Yea every time I see adfly I immediately click off and try to find a better mod lmfao ☠️
I remember when the sims community would defend the adfly people and then cry about malware/broken downloads later
I use modthesims. No ads, just mods. I've never had an issue
Idk why my comments keep disappearing.
I use modthesims. Idk why youtube thinks that needs to be censored.
Every kid trying to get free Minecraft from ~2012-16 be like:
i remember trying to download mods for minecraft when i was little and getting redirected to adfly all the time it was so annoying i swear
I had an xp lended to me. Minecraft played at like 10 fps so my friend suggested I get optifine. He linked me to the mc forum post with the adfly link. I followed the instructions to downloading it(I did not hit the green "download now" buttons)but when I did, it displayed something called "optimum installer" The installer was literally rigged where if i hit no, it was like fuck you imma do it anyway. Gave me a cocktail of shitty malware that I knew how to deal with (ilivid, babylon etc) as well as a fucking nasty trojan called "IRP Hook." Just mde minecraft even more of a frame-skipping mess.
@@noahlovotti7722 damn, thats wild
Me when i was trying to download flash..
Nah for me it was trying to install mods without reading anything and destroying my computer by downloading random jar files. For whatever reason whatever I installed disabled explorer and I had to use system restore to fix it. I didn't even know about custom launchers at the time, so I thought every mod just worked like OptiFine.
Adfly
stop trying to trick me into believing thats my download link
*TheOriginalAce intensifies*
Luckily you can click skip ad to leave it without downloading
You forgot the "™"
@@sharkycat1096wow I’ve not heard about him in years
Came to see: malware, fake extentions and SCAMS!
what i actually got: someone with quite minimal technical knowledge trying to download malwares and doing it unsuccessfully for 21 minutes
ikr, this was actually frustrating to watch...
to be fair, people with minimal technical knowledge are the main targets of malware
Scams are designed to fool those with little knowledge. The fact that he couldn't get anything to work is actually a good thing.
it was entertaining though
why minimal technical knowledge?
The 90s style scam website was pure art
Imagine the poor guy just wanting to download a minecraft mod
Hot single minecraft creepers in your area
Its natural selection
@@hamburger_eatspie more like hot single creeps in your area lmao
@@hamburger_eatspie youre gonna have a blast on the bed
That was me a decade ago. Our computer was bricked.
I fucking hate adfly. One minute im trying to download a texture pack and then the next minute there are hot singles in my area
Then also
YOUR (device here) HAS A VIRUS
CLICK THIS TO FIX IT
Even if it's fake
Hot single creeper ladies in your biome
6:37 HEY WAIT A MINUTE
this is just called 'maturation', bro
i remember when every sims cc creator used adfly for their links x.x
same. i wish that the booty site was still running because they pirated adfly and permapaywall content to the masses since the sims 2 days
Thank goodness most have switched to Google drive.
@@whiteglovian dollhouse mafia 👀
@@ryuox yeah im in their tg!! its really good but i miss regular sites sometimes
I haven't seen an adfly link in years, but that shit gives me war flashbacks to early 2010s.
Adfly and Mediafire, it was always those two.
media fire omg !!
I still default to Mediafire for uploading files for other people, when I used Dropbox the links would occasionally die and I found the download button kind of non obvious
Mediafire is a little better than adfly at least
adfly is named adfly for a reason
ad - adware
fly - annoying as a fly in your room
Adfly is so nostalgic to me and idk why Lol. Always had to go through it to download texture packs and mods.
Lmao me too for me it was sims 4 mods
*"wait, this isn't how to rob a bank"*
Duh
Underrated comment
Wait
This isn’t rick astleys never gonna give you up
@@chickenoraria7559it's a joke
Mod developer here. I am very sorry for ignorantly using adfly back in the day
sims 4 modders putting adfly links on their stuff usually gets them blacklisted from the community due to the malware risk
i used to use adblock specifically due to that
this was my first thought as well, never really ran into adfly that much until i started downloading sims 4 CC.. it’s abysmal 😭
@@despairinq it was really common with sims 3, too! sims 2 usually opted for patreon-esque arrangements
Glad to hear it. I got out of using custom content when I started to build for the gallery and got fed up with the in-game filters not filtering.
on my old windows 8 laptop, 8 year old me was trying to download an auto clicker when i was on one of these. it ended up installing a literal ransomeware onto my laptop and my mum was so mad, she had to pay $500 to reactivate my laptop
RIP adfly, you were sketchy but at least I didn’t have to “check out interesting articles from the web” every time I wanted to download a minecraft mod
wait is it gone?
@@幐 yeah, all their links got merged into linkvertise who bought them
You mean about the streamline kinda website thing?
You do know modrinth exists right?
Linktiverse sucks man
adfly is just sketchy in of itself
i got adware on my tablet shortly after buying it. and i think we all know why.
but i fixed it very quickly so it wasn't too much of a problem.
@Alpha hm?
yeah it looks like one big sketch download button
I’m scared.
I pressed a ok download button on adfly. Luckily it brought me to the game I was getting mods for, but please pray I didn’t get the virus.
@@EvanMMD3939 Oh, you like MMD and Vocaloid!! Hi! Nice Secret Police Miku pfp!
Me downloading the most random shit to the family computer when I was 7:
Hey I just found your videos through search and have been watching loads of them. I love these types of videos. You are so so underrated
Glad you like them!
i got a virus because of this🤣😂🤣😂😭😭😭
This guy takes the risk to burn he ,s computer
@@Islamic_ed1ts Nope. He uses a virtual machine which is a good thing (Fake Pc)
yeah i was looking if there were any safe auto clickers when i stumbled upon this channel!
this video needs more attention, thank you for showing us how dangerous internet sites are :( my grandma's computer got hacked becouse of these fake download buttons and hackers stole our family photos and forced her to pay them a lot of money, if i only wathed your video a week ago this wouldnt happend.. (sorry if my english is bad im from poland)
hi, im from Poland too!
same@@Kamix131986
Your English is good! Also, I’m American; what’s it like in Poland?
@@bubgamingandvlogs3870 it is cool in Poland we have houses shops ect
@aloisy
Kurwa stary... naprawdę mi przykro....
adfly bricked my computer
I’m not even joking
Completly forgot about adfly existing.
8:25 OMG that 3D art 😂
Shut up fur
Thankfully adfly is mostly gone from the internet these days. Or at least I don't encounter it as much, it has probably been a good 2-3 years since i last saw an adfly link
They changed to linkvertise the website has higher pay and legitimate advertisements now
linkvertise bought adfly and turned adfly into linkvertise
@@asdfything not that website...... Their "download ... And play it for ..." Tasks suck
download free ram lmao
Almost fell for one when I was younger, I needed more ram to run a mod pack… (thank god I didn’t download free ram)
@@hamburger_eatspie Well, assuming you were on a desktop PC that had four ram slots of which at least two were empty (probably true for most of gen-Z and some b4), it usually literally was as easy as typing the exact EAN or model number written on its label into any search engine and having a parent pay up the ~$50 to slot it in yourself. If you failed to realize that (at least imo) you deserved what "2× RAM 4free" websites offered.
@@whohan779 so ur saying if u were a kid and didn't know how computer parts worked u should get malware?
@@AdRoz.78 Not precisely. You'd also need to be too ignorant to realize you should seek forum or free local techie help.
@@whohan779so it would be ignorant to be advised not to go on forums and have no local repair places your parents would help you go to?
It gotta be so fun just clicking everything you see without being scared about anything happening to your actualy pc
i honestly I'm kinda surprised that CZcams has not added adfly ads into their videos yet.
Ah, good-ol' Adfly, the one thing literally every person who downloaded random minecraft mods they found on the forums in 2014 can unite under. You learned quick to never interact with whatever it showed and to hit that skip button ASAP, usually to get to a mediafire link where the actual mod was hosted.
It's nostalgic to see, but damn am I glad we've moved past those dark ages years ago and have stuff like Modrinth and Curseforge now.
I knew The Voice was legit as soon as I saw the headline "Wentz can't win" X'D, good video!
As in Pete????
I downloaded this video and stored it on an archive-grade optical disk so when our civilization is long gone people will be able to research our culture. Thanks for this contribution 🙏
I honestly don't know why any site ever wants to know, needs to know, or should ever even ask for, your location. If I am purchasing something that needs to be delivered to my door, I'll be happy to fill out the shipping information once I've devoted to a purchase.
i remember when i clicked on allow on adfly notifications and long story short i accidentally deleted my browsing history (although i stopped the popups)
ahhh adfly... the bane of every barely tech literate child of the 2010's who just wanted some minecraft mods...
I once got the iphone calendar virus from it
it feels like he recorded this for himself
he manged to go to an personal website insted of scams
ah yes. this brought me back to my childhood. this website was an obscure part of it.
The amount of trash from random websites and CZcams videos that I have downloaded during my childhood, and I never not a single time got any malware. I’m truly amazed by how dumb someone has to be to actually get hacked or whatever.
Worst I got was bricked by ransomware but I don't actually remember where it came from
Sadly i do not recommend installing extensions on a separate profile.... I had installed an extension (on a different chrome browser app entirely) and rhe extension decided to turn the entire app in a malicious file that was trying to steal cookies and what not... Like i struggled to uninstall the app
2:07 As a funky musician once said, "It's simple, it's safe, it's a full-proof system!"
Thank you jobel for this windows 10 destruction
TORNADO
WHOS BEEN DRAWING DEEKS
I used to play stupid zombies on my dad's phone a lot, interesting to hear about it again
I used to be in the Sims 4 fandom and some custom content creators were notorious for using adfly (which was a besides everything else, a way of getting around EA's 'no profit' clause in the EULA) and somebody worked out the return they got and it was pitiful, particularly compared to the amount of alleged damage to other people's computers.
brings me back to when i got my first computer virus not knowing that it was a virus until my dad checked the computer
just randomly stumbled upon this channel and I am so happy I did! such an informative and interesting video!
Thanks for this video! I'm really interested in malware, so thanks for this video. Also, are you using a VM?
yes yes he is
adfly told me to click allow on notification i did and then stuff started to pop up like VIRUS VIRUS and i did quick scan with window then no virus then i realized it was a scam then adfly started to send more and more you got a virus then they put in like not good pictures then i got traumatized i also am a little younger so that was so sad for me and dark so i quickly disabled noti for adfly
YOU ARE EXACTLY LIKE ME, I'M SO SORRY THAT THIS HAPPENED ALSO TO YOU!
@@kkre2022Classic. That's a two step plan. They hijack your dns so that they can redirect your traffic, then they scare you with fake virus warnings. When you google anti-virus, they taint all the results with fake programs that will further infect you
Bruh 😭😭
@@kkre2022Avoid adfly. Please be very careful of the websites you use.
12:29 i remember playing this game, and can say that the real deal looks almost nothing like this game
when i was like 12, i downloaded a program on my old laptop through adfly and my screen legit went black and my laptop never turned on again.
Wow, very good video, well done. I subbed.
Bro let his intrusive thoughts win
please tell me your doing this on a VM
Yes, I generally use both a VM and VPN.
Years ago I remember trying to get a single midi file using an adfly download link which in the end never even gave me the link to the download, only ad after ad after NEVER ENDING ADS.
...am I literally the only one here who never had a bad time with adfly cause I wasn't dumb enough to ever click on an ad there?
I totally forgot about adfly from my og minecraft modding times
this reminds of the fake surveys i did as a kid trying to download mine-craft hacks
Its such a scourge for sims modders. Want a new fancy dress? Good look finding a link to a smaller creator that isn't adfly.
When I was a kid I had asked my mom to help me download minecraft mods, and instead of waiting she clicked on like every download button on adfly, then years later blamed me for downloading the viruses when I literally watched her do that with my own eyes
damn adfly...that brings back memories.
one of those websites that make you feel old.
I need a adblocker that only blocks green buttons that say "download"
Missed opportunity to call it flyware
adfly more like adspam
I come from the Hispanic side, I remember that a lot of the pirated content was behind those ugly ADFLY and similar "wait for 5 sec." links. Hell, the uploader was so scummy that you had to go through 3 ADFLY links back to back.
It got so bad that some dudes in comments legit shared the clean link to download and everyone praised them as heroes
sims 4 players lose their minds upon hearing the name of this horrid site
Modthesims is the safest site I've used.
Sorry if you get spammed by my comments. Mobile is broken and I can't tell if they're appearing or being auto-deleted.
I was trying to say that I find modthesims to be safe
its like being a veteran in the 4th of july
anyone remember that adfly knock off with the logo being a ninja?
i think it's strange that people wanted to see some sort of humorous or highly edited video with 182619271072 viruses when it's, like, literally on the title that you would simply use adfly as normal and try to find something shady. literally clicked anything that appeared 💀 media literacy is dead
Use temp-mail on those email gates.
whys it even called adfly if its logo has a bee
I watch one video about how adfly is shiet and now my recommendations are chock-full of videos about adfly, also hi
My dumba-- accidentally downloaded Trojans trying to download Minecraft forge a few years ago. Luckily it was a blank old laptop because i knew some shit would happen
did you reinstall windows after this?
Its a virtual machine, he presses one button and the vm is back to what it was before
Some of the images could be infected in websites and you can't tell . That is stegnography to those who don't know.
lolwut
@@jeffzkiller3590*steganography. But the fix for that is simple enough: do not download anything suspicious and do not freely accept cookies.
Woahh!!! Your videos are great! :O Keep it up!!
The Money add have 1960 layout ad-virus
I love the sound of you typing lol
plot twist: the mcafee impersonators are actually mcafee employees
i remember when mediafire used to give you a hidden popup window when you hit the download button.
hidden as in it somehow didn't go on top of the current window but it was behind it so you didn't know it was the unless you closed or moved your browser
YES. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO CLICK ON SHIT FROM ADFLY BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO FRICK UP MY PHONE
With adfly you ONLY want to click "skip ad" because anything else is 99% a virus
I remember in like 2018 i got a p*rn virus because i wanted to get shaders on Minecraft bedrock edition and of course it came from AdFly
Sometimes adfly is so frightening
Why is the music suddenly ending?
We Minecraft players are conditioned to only pay attention to the countdown and click on the "Skip" button when downloading mods and texture packs. Then click on "Download". Continue until no new windows open and you can
finally save the archive file on your PC.
And it will always be the dullest, most unassuming download button too
Adfly fans: 😭
Direct link enjoyers: 🗿
Why is adfly so full of malware?
Because they don't care who buys the adspace from them - most will filter things to appeal to bigger-ticket buyers, but adfly doesn't do that. It's a relic of a different, more archaic marketing strategy.
I love this video 😂 I don’t think I have seen enough videos about this yet. Back in the old days, we would have to use adfly or media fire just to download mods, which sucked because those mods might have also been infected. Ahh the good old days
This video is -- or is it? I'm not sure... oh, here it is. I think this one's, um, some sort of... I'm going to assume it's unscripted. Or maybe it isn't. Now I could check, but I don't have the patience.
Try harder.
Words cannot express how much i hate adfly. I hate adfly with a burning passion. My day is instantly ruined when i am looking for something, only to be met with an adfly page.
Dude I really like your videos.
my old tablet from when i was 8 redirects google to an ad site because in 2016 i wanted coloured redstone lamps in pocket edition minecraft and i went on adfly 😭
Its that anoying pop up it would apear when i wanted to watch pirated movies
and now days we have sites an extensions whos only purpose is to bypass sites like adfly
Why youtube now recommends adfly videos
ytmp3 has this problem but its not from adfly
I LEARN MY HARD LESSON FROM TAPPING THAT AD FOR SOME MOD💀 HAD TO FACTORY RESET MY LAPTOP.
It is ridiculous how people don't see the BIG BLUE TOP BAR with the "SKIP AD" button that shows after seconds...
If you don't press other buttons then you will be safe.
So, interestingly, I use Kaspersky Security Cloud, and I went on Adfly to download something, and TRUST ME I did not click anything, and then AFTER I LEFT THE PAGE it said like 16 times "download blocked"
The first time it said it wasn't a virus, then the others it said it was "illegitimate software".....
@@MidnightTheKitten What kind of a browser you use?
You shouldn't mess with the settings allowing things to download "automatically" without your permission.
Also you probably did pressed something but you deny it on purpose or you just forgot.
@@MasterBlek Deny it on purpose...? Why are you assuming things about me for no reason? My dad has been working with computers for over 30 years and he didn't blink an eye when I told him about that happening. He just recommended that I do a computer scan, and preferably one from an external drive to boot up Linux and do it from there.
I use Google Chrome. And I don't remember ever messing with those settings. Maybe I did, I don't know. But even then, it should say that something is downloading, which it did not. Do you truly believe that the only way I could have had something download was by clicking something? Do you not understand how viruses work? I've gotten plenty of alerts from my antivirus software saying it blocked a download that was "notavirus:HEUR" or something like that. I looked it up, and it means that it's adware. And that happened in times when I didn't click anything.
Why would I, a person who is willingly looking up videos about computers and viruses, be foolish enough to click on a stupid big link in the middle of the screen when I've been using adfly for years, originally to download Minecraft mods? And why would I lie about clicking on it? What could I possibly gain from lying about getting a virus from a website and replying to some random person on a computer video?
@@MidnightTheKitten Because you read something and clicked on it...
I am aware of that psychology and also there is no way for adfly to send files to you without your permission.
If a downloading window shows up asking you to "download or not" something then DO NOT PRESS "YES".
Perhaps you didn't even read the message and pressed the button anyways thinking that it's about "skipping" or something.
Use fastforward extension for ad fly
15:00 guadio sponsoring youtubers is now super funny
Wait i remember adfly... This was malware? 😩😩😩😩
Why would anyone use Adfly