Do sensible people honestly use these sites? Might make me seem a bit of a tin hat nutter but once you've taken a risk with a site like this, you've basically

Do sensible people honestly use these sites? Might make me seem a bit of a tin hat nutter but once you've taken a risk with a site like this, you've basically no idea what they did to your computer. What's wrong with solely using trusted sources or direct from safe looking open source repos? (not that this guarantees safety but it's a much more likely outcome than some blackbox where they barely hide the fact they put other things in the downloads!)