u/HobbyQuestionThrow

I miss typed a billing website and landed on a strange redirect, instead of taking me to the website it took me back to my firefox home page with a "Sign into your Google Account" thing on the bottom right. I thought that was strange and closed the tab.

Then I went to check my history to see what site I visited and I saw it was not the site I attempted to visit. It was a strange site with a suspicious URL string and the page name was just ".."

Signed out my gmail session just to be safe, then logged back into gmail on a new tab.

However I then checked my service workers in firefox and saw a service worker from that suspicious site... I'm now worried this was some kind of malware that infected my browser instance the moment I visited the page and persisted after closing it's tab.

I'm going and resetting the password for all sites that used the same password as gmail (I know, I know....) and restarted my browser but I'm wondering if I'm over reacting.

I do have uBlock Origin installed and JS disabled by default, so the site should not have been able to run any javascript.

I feel I have a disconnect in my understanding of socializing. People recommend things like "getting out of the house" and "having hobbies" if you want to make new friends, I do both of these things but they don't seem conductive to making new friendships for me in the way others claim they them to be.

As an example, I've been going to a book club for around two years now. Should I have made new friends by now through the book club? How do I turn going to the club into new friendships that exist outside the book club?

So far my experience with hobbies is that you interact with people at the hobby event in ways related to the hobby and then once the hobby is over no one interacts with each other and everyone goes home.

This has been consistent in every hobby group I've been a part of, multiple book clubs, hiking clubs, gaming clubs, programming clubs.

What am I doing wrong here or is this just normal and the online advice is overstating how often just being outside and socializing turns into friendships?