Its fine if you know what you are doing. But because anyone can set up a pirate bay mirror at this point, it can be a bit iffy to download stuff from there. I’m in a happy position of being able to use a excellent private tracker, but about once a year I do get something from pirate bay because I cant find it elsewhere. I do feel a bit icky after, but so far, all has been fine. knocks all the wood I can find
I think it’s more a generalised phrase, like when you Google something, but you don’t actually use Google. Saying to look at / use pirate bay doesn’t mean the exact site, just means to pirate it somehow.
Why do people STILL recommend TPB in 2026? It’s shady af.
Everytime I look for alternates I end up with sites that offer torrents of movies that end in .exe. so I end up going back to TPB.
Been using 1337x for years with no issues
EDIT: Do not go there without ublock tho
As long you downloading only video/music content you are safe. The worst outcome could be only wrong content
Shady how? It ends up being the right place for 99% of my torrents.
Its fine if you know what you are doing. But because anyone can set up a pirate bay mirror at this point, it can be a bit iffy to download stuff from there. I’m in a happy position of being able to use a excellent private tracker, but about once a year I do get something from pirate bay because I cant find it elsewhere. I do feel a bit icky after, but so far, all has been fine. knocks all the wood I can find
Same
I was getting something from TPB and got an email from Nintendo when I forgot to turn on my VPN.
I mean that has nothing to do tpb but just you not force binding vpn adapter to your torrent client
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I’ve never torrented with a VPN. I guess nobody cares in South Africa
Lol let them email as much as they want. I’m not Gary Bowser.
I think it’s more a generalised phrase, like when you Google something, but you don’t actually use Google. Saying to look at / use pirate bay doesn’t mean the exact site, just means to pirate it somehow.
Well as shady as a midnight walk to the convenient store… So not actually that bad.
I have been out of the 🏴☠️scene for a while and this was the most trusted one back in the days. Are there other alternatives now?
I would recommend 1337 instead. Has pretty much every category like TPB.
But if you are interested in self hosting, check our Arr stack for full automation and jellyfin as media center.
Thanks a lot
Uindex, but it’s recent stuff only.
Thanks