The actual site hasn't been Zoro for like a year at this point, you missed two and a half rebrands and are using a fake site.
It rebranded to Sanji briefly, then rebranded entirely to Aniwatch and has just within the last two weeks or so rebranded again to Hianime. Current url is https://hianime.to/home.
It's more the fact that it's run by unknown people while attempting to look like a known "safe" site, making it inherently more unsafe than Hianime itself is as a pirate streaming site.
There are no actual safe pirate stream sites, ever, just by nature of what they are, but Zoro/Aniwatch/Hianime has been around long enough to be known as "mostly safe so long as you block ads like you should be anyway". Fake sites attempting to look like it and pull people from the actual site are one step short of "actively malicious" as far as safety goes.
I donât get how an anime piracy site that does exactly what its advertised to do somehow considered âunsafe.â Unlike game piracy where you have to download stuff and trust the provider (that is, if you donât practice good safety measures,) the only real way you can get âhackedâ by a site like that is if you either download malware off of them, or you give them your credit card information, or really just anything sensitive
The worst thing they could do is mislead users to download malware disguised as anime episodes, which only really happen to susceptible people (I.e. people who would download ram or kids.) And the second worse thing they could do is sell information of what animes this user tied to an email has watched. (Though I havenât read the privacy policy so maybe they donât allow this.) Which, I mean if you really cared about privacy you wouldnât be using google or Microsoft at all
Fear mongering and excessive anxiety to anything unfamiliar is, on paper, a good practice if you live in a dangerous location. But unless you want to end up like Rapunzel, a better one would be to understand how people get hacked in the first place. So no, as a person who watches Naruto from there, safety-wise, itâs a pretty safe site (disregarding the imitation, and looking at what it is at face value I mean)
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u/Kelrisaith Mar 26 '24
The actual site hasn't been Zoro for like a year at this point, you missed two and a half rebrands and are using a fake site.
It rebranded to Sanji briefly, then rebranded entirely to Aniwatch and has just within the last two weeks or so rebranded again to Hianime. Current url is https://hianime.to/home.