Identify and Avoid Clicking Fake Download Buttons at File Hosting Sites

Recently I have been seeing a lot of really annoying advertisements in file sharing websites that makes you think you need to click on them to start downloading the files. Most of us are already familiar with the steps to download files from file sharing sites which involves clicking on a button to choose to download as free user, enter CAPTCHA, and then wait for about 30 seconds to a minute for the download link to get generated. As for the current trend, when you land on the webpage to download a file from the file sharing website, you are presented with multiple download buttons where most of it dominates the top of the page that normal users would most likely click on the fake download button. An inexperienced computer user may end up downloading something else because they were tricked into clicking on the wrong button.

Here are some tips on how to avoid clicking the wrong or fake download buttons and also how to manually recognize them from your web browser. Below is a sample screenshot of the fake download buttons that appears on file sharing websites called Turbobit.


The easiest way to stop all those fake download buttons that are advertisement from being displayed on your web browser is to use an advertisement blocker program such as AdFender, Adblock Plus , NoScript. I’ve installed Adblock Plus in Firefox, revisited the file sharing sites and the fake download buttons are all gone while only the real download buttons are being displayed.

Finally, if you prefer to keep your computer as clean as possible by not installing any extension or software, it is possible to identify the fake buttons as advertisements by right clicking on buttons or links and check the context menu. If you see either “About Adobe Flash Player” or “Save Image As” in the list, then very likely they are fake download buttons.

Those ads and redirects can really be annoying. You clearly see a link, and are sure that is the correct one, you click, and get redirected to a different site.

The correct download link is usually very small or even hidden in some corner....lol

Yeah very annoying... Sometimes if you dont take care it could lead to opening a web page containing some streaming media.... Which could in turn lead to data consumption.. Before you realize the small data you've bought and you are trying to manage could just finish with a twinkle of aye.... It happens to me many times especially when i try to stream football matches and that really frustrating...

It's not possible to disable all the fake download buttons on all the file hosting sites because some of them will make you disable the adblocker before you can access the download link in order to download so it would be nice if you could share with us the file sharing sites that allow the use of adblock and if some don't allow adblock then how can these sites be bypassed and accessed with adblock plus