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kautau@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah lol the URL doesn’t match the page title which doesn’t match whatever wosonhj.com is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization. I’m sure it’s a helpful site, but I’d recommend people accessing it:
- Don’t use your actual personal email
- Don’t reuse a password you’ve used elsewhere
- Access it through a VPN so your IP isn’t exposed
- Ensure you are running malware protection (the built in malware protection on windows or mac is likely fine and otherwise yes, I know you use arch)
- Anything you download, uplo https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe
Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It used to be at that URL, and that URL redirects to it. They recently updated it and I am unsure where they are taking it.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It makes sense to use throwaway urls, libgen does it all the time, I just wanted to inform people of what I found when looking at the site. Definitely not saying don’t use it, just be cautious
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
(Just contexualising.) :)