Thats great even outside of piracy, there is a gigantic influx of fake websites with very similar URLs
Wonder how long that will stand. Also hasn’t 1337 been deemed unsafe, or is it back on good terms?
Safe and official are not the same thing. I’m not sure there is any pirate site that is 100% safe when downloading applications. You are always taking an educated risk based on the history of the site, the moderation, the users and the application in question. It is not a good habit to think of things as clean or unclean, safe or unsafe, because circumstances can always change and you need be actively on the lookout for warning signs.
I haven’t had a problem with it besides the click stealing malware ads that uBlock gets rid of
1337x is good. Open it with tor and get rid of all the shit. Then get the magnet.
1337x is known to host some game cracks with malicious bitcoin miners built-in. If you don’t play cracked games, maybe it’s nbd, but it still stands that you shouldn’t trust them.
Haven’t found one yet. In general you shouldn’t trust any crack. That’s why you have to check every game with virustotal and restrict internet acces to all of them. Fitgirl posts her repacks there too.
Any public site is bound to have some just download from known safe uploaders and you’re fine
That is honestly a really cool feature. I’d consider myself tech-savy-ish but I always forget what the official Revanced site is. I always have to go to the GitHub. There’s so many fake Revanced sites, it’s crazy!
At this point, DDG is basically Bing, which heavily regulates piracy. Most often searching for a list of scrapers won’t even result in a search return. I know 1337 is pretty blacklisted.
You should be using something like yandex.com for your search queries as they are one of the last ones I’ve seen that still return pretty unfiltered results.
DDG/Bing, Google, Ecosia (Bing), Yahoo, all of the US based search engines have long filtered torrents or websites known for piracy. Places like steamunlocked or steamrips have also been removed.
I wouldn’t go to Yandex directly, just enable it in SearXNG
It also has an option to search 1337x, The Pirate Bay, SolidTorrents and other sites directly
They’ve been doing this for months, at least with some piracy-related sites.
Nice feature. Is it reliable? I can imagine this being dangerous if someone finds out how to manipulate it to flag a malicious site as official.
it’s not automated, it’s manual afaik