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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're using VLC to play downloaded MKV and AVIs then injected threats are far from uncommon.

If a person already has a source for content they trust then go with torrents but if they don't then it isn't safer at all.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

MPC or MPV >> VLC