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)
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.
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
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.
If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html
And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.
Agreed. I won’t provide a link for the sake of not getting the site tarnished but I’ll just say I’ve been attending a certain party that has proven decently reliable.
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?
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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And Kagi just lists it as the first result when searching for “tpb”. Hope they’re not jumping on the train any time soon
I need to pirate their service somehow (Kagi)
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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)
Considering TPB is garbage and shouldn’t be used anymore, I see this as an absolute win
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.
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
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.
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.
The fun thing is that it’s basically unquantifiable how large the risk is. We only know about vulnerabilities after we find them!
You want dat zero day shizzle, homie
Isnt there a popular PS2 hack method which is basically using a broken video?
If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html
Yeah, of course! Because we’re all using… 👀
https://rentry.co/megathread
Yeah! We’re all using that great platform! It’s called…
OMG I love that new amazing tracker that everyone is currently using, named…
I’ve seen this theme on Lemmy several times. Tell people they shouldn’t be using something, but not what they should be.
Yup, it’s really great that we’re all so familiar with it that we don’t even need to mention its name, which is…
And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.
it works pretty well for me.
what are some better alternatives?
Some links are better than others.
Agreed. I won’t provide a link for the sake of not getting the site tarnished but I’ll just say I’ve been attending a certain party that has proven decently reliable.
The link goes to a site that has links, so nothing to worry about.
How many of us have to spam links to piratebay in comments on website-x, to have Google delist website-x in those countries?
I haven’t used Google search in years. Their monopoly on the Internet is really trash.
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?
I like SearXNG
Kagi. It’s a subscription but it has a lot of good features and no advertised.
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I suggest using SearXNG and Startpage
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Setup a Whoogle instance!
Nice
Honestly, duckduckgo isnt as bad and easier to switch to.
I’ve been very happy with duckduckgo.
Duckduckgo has been my default for a couple years. It’s excellent.
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Thepiratebay.org has been blocked for almost 10 years in Norway, now. This doesn’t make a difference, whatsoever