Back in (estimating) 1997, I was playing Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 via the then-relevant MSN Online and someone posted a link in the public chat; I don’t remember what the link offered, but it was enticing enough that my ten-year-old self clicked it.
They said “someone with the IP [whatever IP I had then] clicked this!” In response I unplugged both my modem and computer so they couldn’t hack me.
It’s embarrassing to remember now, but I knew so little at the time that it seemed to make sense in the moment.
Your reaction to the situation was pretty smart tho.
If in doubt, go all out
Wild to think I used to raw dog the internet for a long while, now I’m always at least behind a VPN and encrypted DNS which is still bare minimum nowadays
Not to play smart, but I think Tor browser can also help.
Yeah I use that here and there, it’s far too slow for me to use it all the time though sadly, plus I don’t want to waste the resources of the nodes
