Editing the URL so it directs to the file
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Look at all the peasants with no arrs.
Peasants have 35 Rs!
Guess how many strawberries with 5 R's I'm holding on my left hand while riding a pterosaur?
What a fun and imaginative scenario! Riding a pterosaur and holding strawberries (with 5 R’s!) in your left hand—now that’s a scene straight out of a fantastical adventure.
Let me guess… You’re holding fouRRRRR strawberries! (That’s four with five R’s, for extra emphasis and strawberry power.)
If I’m wrong, maybe you can give me a clue—or tell me if the pterosaur is jealous of your fruity snack! 🍓🦖
They're evolving!
Trick question, the link is a plain blue hyoerlink near the bottom of the page you haven't scrolled to yet
Or the download is already under way, and started once you arrived at the page
Starts after a 25 second delay
Not if you're a premium user!
Curious. The only winning move is not to play.
non, you wait for the donwload to start automatically, if not, update all your adblocks and try the button with no url when you hover over it
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Millennial here. The true answer is None Of The Above. The actual download button is just a blue link somewhere on the page, probably among all of the torrent info.
Gen Z here. I usually look for the magnet link to copy paste into my torrent client. I think that bypasses the download button problem.
I might be biased against that from the ages of dialup, where torrenting almost always ended up failing if you also seeded, but you felt guilty if you leeched.
This is the correct answer. It might also be the filename shown. If you can put your cursor over that it might become underlined. All big Download buttons are not to be trusted.
It always irked me back in the day when cnet was still a useful source because they modeled their buttons that way. Then they eventually became the garbage the site appeared to be at first glance.
Came here to say this. Closest onscreen would probably be the grey "Download or Watch" button not trying to get your attention in any way.
The real download button only shows up after 30 seconds.
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You drag the button. If it takes with it more than just a button, it is an ad.
I just hover over and read URLs if I'm not sure.
This is the real answer
I actually didn't know that. I would mouse over and look at the url.
No matter where you click, it'll open some pop-unders for the first few clicks.
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.
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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.
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
If you didn't give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?
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I honestly don't see one that looks right.
You click on the file name
In the very top right of the browser window, there should be a little 'X' button. That's the one you wanna click.
The little grey button at the bottom of the screen
But only if that’s what your OS’s native dialog buttons look like
Jpeg of a windows dialog button while you’re using Linux? That’s a trap.
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The ones that don't say "advertisement" under.. as a gen z that commits regular piracy
There are 3 "downloads" there without advertisement written under them. Just use the most basic looking button, it's like how the holy grail is the most plain looking one.
That or just use devtools/inspect elements.
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The real answer is a question - Is the timer still running ?
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