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Are there any safe YouTube to MP3 converters out there?
Hi there,
For a while I've been using sites such as video2mp3.net and youtube-mp3.org to rip the audio from music on YouTube. However, lately when using these sites, I've noticed that they've been bypassing my adblocker and antivirus (my desktop is protected with McAfee, my laptop with IOBit's antivirus software), and forcing ads to open in new tabs or windows. Often they are something random, but recently I've noticed that they're the type of ads that are like 'your computer is infected with a virus!' and they force a bunch of dialog windows, which isn't a good time. So, I'm thinking I should probably stop using those websites.
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That being said, are there any safe alternatives? I've tried a few different sites but they all seem to do the same thing. Is there any decent software out there? There's one I tried downloading by DVDVideosoft but McAfee wouldn't let me, declaring it was malware.
I've also been running scans on my computers and the scans haven't found anything so far, so I'm thinking I may not be infected with anything just yet, but better safe than sorry. v_v
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