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[–] 57 points 2 years ago

How many of us have to spam links to piratebay in comments on website-x, to have Google delist website-x in those countries?

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I haven't used Google search in years. Their monopoly on the Internet is really trash.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Which search engine do you prefer? I've been looking to switch because the results are not as good as they used to be in my opinion, but I'm not sure which of these other ones are better?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Kagi. It's a subscription but it has a lot of good features and no advertised.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Considering TPB is garbage and shouldn't be used anymore, I see this as an absolute win

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ya, no pirate worth their salt would risk it at this point. It's so infested with malware, with seemingly no moderation, and no meaningful original releases.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.

    And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    FWIW common libraries like ffmpeg and what not can contain bugs which video files could potentially abuse and exploit.

    Is that a common risk? Probably not. But image libraries have been known to have such exploits.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You're much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you're doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, of course! Because we’re all using… 👀

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah! We're all using that great platform! It's called...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    OMG I love that new amazing tracker that everyone is currently using, named...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Thepiratebay.org has been blocked for almost 10 years in Norway, now. This doesn't make a difference, whatsoever

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Funny thing is... you can still find it with duckduckgo, search.brave.com, qwant, searx..

    plus even on google, you can click any of the first several links - including wikipedia - and the link is easy to find. sadly 'reddit pirate bay' is easy to find TPB link from but 'lemmy pirate bay' doesn't have TPB link without more searching (and even more sad, the first result isn't dbzer0 but a community on the ml instance)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And Kagi just lists it as the first result when searching for "tpb". Hope they're not jumping on the train any time soon

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  • [+] [B] -9 points 2 years ago

    New Lemmy Post: Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9526373)
    Tagging: #Piracy

    (Replying in the OP of this thread (NOT THIS BOT!) will appear as a comment in the lemmy discussion.)

    I am a FOSS bot. Check my README: https://github.com/db0/lemmy-tagginator/blob/main/README.md

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