Back in the days when we still don't have this kind of technology, if we want to watch a movie, we usually go to a theatre or rent movies at a video store. Nowadays, we don't actually consider that anymore particularly renting movies in light of the fact that we have this technology now, which I think is really helpful. Anyway, I usually watch movies at home and whenever I search for movies, there are a lot of streaming websites that I see wherein you need to register with a valid credit card for you to be able to stream or download movies from their website. I admit I'm always skeptic about this and never even tried to give out any card details with these types of website. Have you ever encountered some of these websites? Do you bother giving out card details just to watch or stream online?
I have encountered these sites and same with you, I am skeptical about them asking about card details. A lot of same sites offer movies for free.
Are you talking about stuff like Netflix and Hulu or just these random streaming sites that pop up all the time? There are lots of random ones that don't require a credit card, but you have to make sure that they aren't showing movies online illegally that haven't been released online yet. If it's still in theaters, you shouldn't be able to access it online. If they say you can, and especially if they want your credit card info, I'd get out of there quickly. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. have lots of stuff to for a small monthly fee. They are way cheaper than having cable or satellite TV.
I wouldn't trust anything that isn't officially advertised and reviewed a lot of times already. I know that Netflix is very safe because most of my family members have it. I would definitely not trust just any random site that comes up.
Ah, those are the paid sites where they require you to pay before you get to download. I encounter them quite often. I always close the tab of those kind of websites, because I can download or watch videos for free anyway, so why should I pay when I can get it for free, right?
I totally agree, since there are tons of sites out there where you can download for free. but most of the time these sites have viruses with them, so I always update my anti-virus just to be safe.
If it's a well known site such as Netflix then I think it would be safe to try but any random website I would most definately be skeptical about. We must be careful and only subscribe to well known sites as there are so many scammers out there.
@Working Buck, True, but I only got those viruses while downloading a software or an ebook. With mp3's and movies, I still haven't downloaded one that had viruses in them. That's why it's always a must to scan the file first before opening them to be sure that they are virus free, especially if they are in rar, zip, or exe file.
Yup, I always do that. Since a lot of viruses are being developed everyday, I also see to it that my antivirus is always updated. To be safe, I do not enter any website. Not just websites, I also do not click everything that I see on my social media accounts. There are some videos on Facebook which tend to scatter themselves as soon as you click on them. And most of these are porn videos. I have seen some of this videos being posted randomly by some people who clicked it, they are literally everywhere.
You are very true. That is their secret agenda, to infect PCs with viruses and other malware programs. Nowadays we can download movies at very compact size, but your security could be compromised. I avoid those sites at any cost. Even the most advanced anti-virus programs may not be able to catch those malwares. Just think if they became successful with a very dangerous malware like key logger. But I think facilities like Netflix are quite genuine but we need to pay for it.
True, better pay and be safe than watch something for free and ruin your gaming PC that costs a lot more like a car LOL!
@Working Buck, True, we should never click any shady links, because once you visit an infected site, then your PC will become infected as well. Luckily, Chrome automatically blocks such hazardous sites. Mcaffee Site Advisor is also a good browser extension that warns you when the sites that appear in Google's search results are safe or not.
You know what I found out about streaming some television movies? I have OceanicTimeWarner cable now called Spectrum. We can watch for free signing up per se at the television site where you'd like to watch a program and they'll ask you what cable you have and you sign in and you get to watch in full all the television programs you like for free. I joined History channel and clicked on to my cable signed in and got to watch some programs like Hunting Hitler that I missed. It's just great to watch for free. There's youtube for watching Hallmark's Christmas shows in entirety for free; all you got to do is have an youtube acct. you get for free. There's dubbedanime.net to catch up on all your anime programs too. All for free these sites have programs to watch. Good luck!
I do have Malware bytes and it does a great job. Whenever I visit a new site and it is unsafe, it would not open or a warning would pop out.
I guess I try to avoid anything like that, and anytime where I have to use a card or register or something I would rather have it be centralized, so going to different sites might not be the best things for me,
No, I haven't seen websites where I would have to register with my credit card to have access to the movies. I don't get it are they going to debit your account for movies watched or downloaded. Anyway I'll be skeptical to let my card info out to just any site.
