I buy a decent amount of stuff online. I've even seen ads for something and bought it the first time I saw it.
But I would never, ever, buy anything after clicking an ad on a torrent site, even one I knew to be 100% legal and above board. Hell you'd be hard to get me to even click one of the ads in the first place let alone just open a new tab and search for whatever the product was.
The risks are everything from spam to scam to fraud to full-blown identity theft if you click the wrong ad on the wrong site, and all of that can be obviated by just searching for the thing in a new tab 99% of the time. The juice (getting the site owner a fractional percentage of the sale at best, or a fraction of a penny for a click) ain't worth the squeeze IMO.
But I would never, ever, buy anything after clicking an ad on a torrent site, even one I knew to be 100% legal and above board. Hell you'd be hard to get me to even click one of the ads in the first place let alone just open a new tab and search for whatever the product was.
The risks are everything from spam to scam to fraud to full-blown identity theft if you click the wrong ad on the wrong site, and all of that can be obviated by just searching for the thing in a new tab 99% of the time. The juice (getting the site owner a fractional percentage of the sale at best, or a fraction of a penny for a click) ain't worth the squeeze IMO.