Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions

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Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions

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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've been very happy with duckduckgo.
  
  Honestly, duckduckgo isnt as bad and easier to switch to.
  
  I like SearXNG
  
  Kagi. It's a subscription but it has a lot of good features and no advertised.
  
  Setup a Whoogle instance!
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  Yeah, of course! Because we’re all using… 👀
  
  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.
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
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)
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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