Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions
Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions
Google has removed thepiratebay.org from its search result 'knowledge panels' in regions where the site is already blocked.
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?
Honestly, duckduckgo isnt as bad and easier to switch to.
I've been very happy with duckduckgo.
I like SearXNG
Duckduckgo has been my default for a couple years. It's excellent.
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.
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.
Thepiratebay.org has been blocked for almost 10 years in Norway, now. This doesn't make a difference, whatsoever
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)
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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