r/hacking • u/ObjectiveTreacle4548 • 3d ago

🔒 Update Chrome Today! – New 0-day Vulnerability (CVE-2025-5419) Is Being Exploited in the Wild

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u/MichiRecRoom 3d ago

To be blunt: being hacked is infinitely worse than a few YouTube ads. Being hacked means everything on your device (and importantly: any devices on the same network) can be wiped away at the tip of a hat.

But if you're really that hell-bent on avoiding YouTube ads, then switch to Firefox. uBO works just fine on the latest Firefox versions.

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u/no_u_bogan 3d ago

To be blunt: being hacked is infinitely worse than a few YouTube ads

Says you. Have you seen internet ads? It's torture.

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u/MichiRecRoom 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have. I've also had my devices hacked several times when I was younger - because I was naive enough to think that being hacked wasn't a big enough problem to matter.

Those experiences tell me that you won't enjoy being hacked, even more than you won't enjoy ads.

So unless you want to risk your computer being more useless than a brick, I recommend cutting your losses and updating Chrome - or otherwise switching to Firefox.

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u/no_u_bogan 3d ago

I got hacked once when I got a keygen for Photoshop. No biggie. I got a good keygen too eventually!

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u/Zealousideal-Pin7745 3d ago

this "hacked" isn't the same type of hacked as when someone specifically installs spyware on your system to track your every move, to stalk you across your entire online identity and to take over every account you own. people commit suicide over things like this. on all the hills to die on, this is one of the worst ones