Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn’t try that.

Honestly not sure about this. Seems a bit uninspired

Yup. Reality. No point using a hyper secure chat system if literally nobody you know is using it.

Outside of handhelds, I don’t really see the use-case of consoles anymore, to be honest.

My most upvoted post of all time is about this very issue https://sh.itjust.works/post/2882678

I migrated away from lemmy.world as a result

You’re going to need to give more information than this zero context screenshot. Is this a virus scanner? If so, which? Why are you scanning? What caused this series of events? What’s the full content of this popup?

Absolute worse case scenario: whatever you’re doing will not irreparably damage your PC. If you break windows or whatever you can just wipe your pc and reinstall windows via a usb stick. However, it’s not clear what’s going on here.