Search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed all search results for popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies.
Yet another slight from Duckduckgo, adding to the many they have done recently. I’m looking for a new search engine to be my daily driver. Any suggestions? Startpage? Brave?
I don’t understand why youtube-dl is targeted so much in search results. YouTube keeps changing their scripts so that it has only worked about 1 week per month for the last 5 years. And that’s when they push an update within a month. Sometimes it’s as long as 90 days that the thing doesn’t work.
They started censoring search results just a few weeks ago. It wasn’t hard to predict that they’re going to go further with that. Switch to Brave search and pray they won’t go down that route as well.
If you search site:youtube-dl.org, for example, it returns no results. But if you search just youtube-dl, it comes right up. Probably a bug and they never meant to deindex it.
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I don’t understand why youtube-dl is targeted so much in search results. YouTube keeps changing their scripts so that it has only worked about 1 week per month for the last 5 years. And that’s when they push an update within a month. Sometimes it’s as long as 90 days that the thing doesn’t work.
I use it a couple times per week and it has worked 99% of the time for the last 5 years. Maybe you’re doing something wrong.
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They started censoring search results just a few weeks ago. It wasn’t hard to predict that they’re going to go further with that. Switch to Brave search and pray they won’t go down that route as well.
SearX metasearch works well.
I’m still getting results for the few of these I tried. People on other sites are also reporting that it’s working for them.
iirc this has happened before and it was just a mistake in how they implemented bing results. I hope that’s the case here again.
If you search
site:youtube-dl.org, for example, it returns no results. But if you search justyoutube-dl, it comes right up. Probably a bug and they never meant to deindex it.