Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order * TorrentFreak
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Google has removed The Pirate Bay and more than 100 related domains from its search results in the Netherlands.

PMC radlib Google simp: Noooo you can't break free from corporate control of the web! IP rights are sacred and must be protected!

Chad Linux-using DuckDuckGo-searching piracy adovate: I pirated this post, I do not even know what a "Google" is.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Secondary argument for duck duck go: it doesn't have to serve you ads and random shit, so I think it's legitimately faster than Google now. Like idk how Google got slower than it was in 2002.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      I've never been burned by malware in all my years of using TPB (although I do use 1337x these days since the site itself is way better and not down all the fucking time). With TPB you gotta look for the torrents with the green or purple skull next to their name, that shows it's from a VIP/trusted user.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I do but that's because I don't know any other site to find torrents.

        • bananon [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I 1337x because of its moderation, but sometimes it just doesn’t have what I want. I wish I could figure out how to use those huge Russian torrent sites

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Zamunda.net is another Bulgarian torrent site with pretty decent offerings. Has an English version and I've been using it problem-free for a good 15 years, maybe more

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    But I only ever got there by searching (googling 🤓) for it. How will I get there now??

    • layla
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      3 years ago

      :gulag:

      • Kanna [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Me with the chad duckduckgo extension at work (where i'm forced to use chrome)

          • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Doesn’t stop you from bringing firefox on a thumb drive (yet) but it really blows.

            School computers often have administrative policies that prevent students from running any software not directly approved by the admin.

              • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                That's nice, but seems to be rapidly disappearing unfortunately. I did similar stuff in high school and I can't imagine how bad the situation is for a lot of students now.

                I nabbed a privileged account password by writing a keylogger and used it when the teacher needed to unlock a a site with course content that was blocked by our overzealous internet filter.

                Also some moron (not me) actually stole a processor out of a school PC lmao. a decent xeon.

                Holy shit those are beefy school computers. We only had okay-ish (at the time) Pentiums in ours.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    We should pirate google's search engine.

    • layla
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      3 years ago

      Radlib PMC: Use Ecosia! You will help end climate crisis too!

      Principled Marxist-Leninist-DuckDuckGoist: Using Ecosia to escape corporations' control of the web is no better than using Bing.

        • layla
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          3 years ago

          No, it's its own thing ("Duck Duck Go, Inc" I think)

          • Facky [he/him,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            I think this is where the confusion started.

            "DuckDuckGo (also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms. It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler."

            • layla
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              3 years ago

              The tl;dr being that it's not owned by Microsoft

              • Facky [he/him,comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                Yes, I meat to say "I think this is where the confusion started" but got overeager and hit "Reply" first.

    • layla
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      3 years ago

      Yeah. Been using it for years and it's great. Can't stand Google any more, as with most things tech related it's just a question of what you're used to

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    google was always the worst search engine to search for torrents, even bing is better, but DuckDuckGo is the best :duck-dance: