• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        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.