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Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty
An anonymous reader writes: Following what appears to be a severe penalty, the popular torrent site KickassTorrents has become pretty much unfindable in Google. Meanwhile, the top search result in many locations points to a scam site that's serving malware to its visitors. For now, only DuckDuckGo presents the real site as a main result. With millions of visitors per day, KickassTorrents is arguably the most visited torrent site on the Internet, and has gained new users during the moments when the notorious Pirate Bay has been offline.
Hideki!
Just like their search results. Kind of ironic that they have become a laggard in an industry they used to excel at.
There are plenty of references and it is easy to find.
So not "unfindable".
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
And who's surprised by that?
Did they try just kickass? First result is kat.cr - it even comes up in the url/search bar while I am typing.
For each copy of Windows you guys steal, Bill and Steve make less money. Which means another black baby in Africa gets malaria and one less Clipper gets a line of blow to do with his hooker tonight.
Hope you're proud of yourselves, heartless pricks!
Seems that google has some kind of (memory) corruption otherwise they (don't) censor things.
1.) So basically you can find the url via wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2.) Kickasstorrents have a (?censor resistant?) twitteraccount:
https://twitter.com/kickasstor...
3.) you can reach KAT:
kickass.to
kat.cr
https://kat.cr/ That is their new location
No link to the real site? I'm not sure which is the original and which ones are just mirrors and malware.
http://kat.cr/
http://kickasstorrents.video/
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Kickass Torrents: KAT
kickass.proxyindex.net/
KickassTorrents Homepage – latest updates and reviews
kickasstorrents.eu/
THIS IS THE MALWARE SITE
KickassTorrents (@kickasstorrents) | Twitter
https://twitter.com/kickasstor...
KickassTorrents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
KickassTorrents
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/
KAT - Kickass Torrents
kickass-torrent.ytsre.eu/
KickassTorrents Disappears From Google After Penalty
TorrentFreak - 15 hours ago
torrentfreak.com/tag/kickasstorrents/
Profile of YIFY - Kickass Torrents
rtwn.ca/ka/user/YIFY/
KickassTorrents - Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/kicka...
Plus I'm getting a DMCA notice of 1 removal, but the link to the complaint doesn't indicate that it includes the real one.
I hadn't googled in months. Good that this is another reason to tell people to duckduckgo things and stop using google (avoiding malware).
Virgin Media have taken it upon themselves to reduce the Internet to "programmed" content by blocking certain sites pursuant to a court order which I have yet to see. They don't even offer a LINK. What I'm getting for my fifty quid a month is basically scheduled content just like the TV. It's a six hundred quid a year fucking television licence fee!
Yet, they're advertising the internet. Selectively filtered content is NOT the internet.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Just switch to DuckDuckGo, like post NSA people did. You can even add !kickasstorrents to only search kickass in DDG.
The sooner we all switch away from Google, a search engine that logs everything, (and also has adverts on pretty much every site, and analytics on every site,) the better.
You realize that Google has all your kickasstorrent searches don't you? And if you are a lawmaker, then your kids kickasstorrent searches are also in the NSA database ready to be leverage against you? Get them into the habit of using DuckDuckGo till something better, more private comes along.
Other people in the thread have posted the eu site is malware - not sure about the us variant. the kat.cr is real.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
kickass torrents
First three results
Search and discuss new and favorite TV shows & TV series, movies, music and games.
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/ A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt â" learn more.
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KickassTorrents Disappears From Google After Penalty TorrentFreakâZ - 17 hours ago
Story posted by Soulskill - probably the explanation
1. You use search engine rather than typing in known URL of a site, to get to a site
If you RTFA, the domain name keeps changing, so it's difficult to remember when that happens.
if you follow the tech news site articles, the domain name has been announced in those, including the most recent change of April 24th
Started 2008
changed to kat.ph in April 2011
kickass.to in June 2013
kickass.so in December 2014
then on April 23 2015 for one day kickass.tm then then next day
April 24 to kat.cr
tl;dr: their domain went down and it took a little while for the new ones to float to the top of google.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
The real winners are the malware creators that get their sites listed at the top now.
In order to take down the torrent trackers providing grey warez the real black ware market feeding the true criminals and terrorists are getting free space to install adware and whatnot instead.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
If you RTFA, it mentioned the fact that they are currently domain-hopping due to their domains being shutdown. It's hard to remember a domain that isn't the same as the one you visited last time.
To agree to this, and show one can't be sure if it's a real or fake site there are at least 100 thepiratebay sites https://www.robtex.com/q/x1?q=... odd thing about the list is the real address (or last good address) is at the very bottom.
And from germany the first web site which comes up is NOT kat.cr, but some sort of weird proxyfinder site. The other one might be old site.
Kickass Torrents: KAT kickass.proxyindex.net/ Search and discuss new and favorite TV shows & TV series, movies, music and games. The Walking Dead. - Kickass Torrents
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/ A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt â" learn more. KAT - Kickass Torrents kickass-torrent.ytsre.eu/
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uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:
http://kickass.to/
Because of the following filter
||kickass.to^
Found in: Malware filter list by Disconnect
I'd take it's word for it, read the post below (the .to site has been down a few years now)
Re:signs you may be ignorant twat when using brows
by iggymanz
But they still use the old IP address's out of Montréal, Canada; this game of hide and seek isn't working all that well.
Kickass.to
The IP address 68.71.58.34
The IP address 78.138.99.144
The IP address 205.204.64.122
"Which hostnames and domains point to the same IP address as kickass.to? kat.cr"
https://www.robtex.com/en/advi...
Kat.cr
The IP address 68.71.58.34
The IP address 78.138.99.144
The IP address 205.204.64.122
https://www.robtex.com/en/advi...
uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:
http://kickass.to/
Because of the following filter
||kickass.to^
Found in: Malware filter list by Disconnect
Depends upon where uBlock gets it's information, while one shouldn't use this as a source or cite (it's poorly maintained) Kat.to has a bad scorecard with a grand total of 32-10=22, the -10 due to "45 pages found, triggering on average 1% antiviruses"
That's not likely to be the real site.
I have an account on Kickass and I was never asked for a credit card number, just a working email address. Anything asking for a card number as verification is almost certainly a scam.
That's a fake site, probably kat.to. It used to be correct but was hijacked about 6 or so months ago. kat.cr is the current one but it may not be for long; things change quickly in that world.
Always suspicious of google search results if someone doesn't explicitly say that they were logged out.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
KAT isn't as good as it used to be. They started censoring torrents in response to DMCA requests a few months back.
I'm finding it increasingly hard to find decent releases on kickass and have started moving back to the pirate bay.
Let's hope that the agency responsible for this has thousands of users searching for TV-series on the office computers and get directed by Google to the Number 1 malware site where they download said malware on the office computers.
This is just as much a punishment to Google's own users, as it is to Kickass's. People who type in the search query are obviously looking to get to the site, not whatever malware-ridden crap Google is serving up now. Google is making their own service shittier, just to punish somebody else...way to cut your nose off to spite your face.
Stasis is death. Embrace change.
I've noticed that at least 95% of my searches can be answered within like 5 or 10 popular sites. I've set all my defaults to duckduckgo and in the rare case I need to find answers that aren't on wikipedia or stackexchange (which duckduckgo finds well), I'll use Google. It's not so much Google is vastly superior, you just have to decide your privacy is valuable and be willing to make small tweaks such as exhausting a less complete search engine before moving to Google.
It's getting better. Most of the time I don't need to Google, but if I'm having trouble, I add g! to the beginning of my search and Google adds a data point to my advertising profile, but I get a second opinion, usually not very helpful.
DDG seems too good to be true really. I wonder if they're *really* not watching.
StartPage is only Google-sourced. Sure, anonymized so not personalized, tracked, or bubbled. But exclusively Google-sourced. Says so right on the box.
So you are "googling" at StartPage. If that isn't what you want, if you want results not wholesaled from Google, use StartPage sister site IxQuick.com. They are a metasearch of many-excluding-Google.
Or use DuckDuckGo, which gets the vast majority of general purpose search from Yandex, but may still have a bit of Bing. Many specialty searches also feed DDG but it's primarily Yandex. Again, without the tracking, filtering and bubbling of Yandex or other search wholesalers to them.
I hope you mean the real "uBlock" which is uBlock Origin, the continuation by gorhill of his real uBlock code, not the sorta-sleazy plain "uBlock" that he handed over to a minor contributor - said contributor immediately launching a donation site, not updating nearly as frequently as "real uBlock" = uBlock Origin, and not including several of gorhill's latest features such as WebRTC "real-IP leak" blocking.
The late-1990s early-20-oughts search engine "Northern Light" was exactly that (old screenshot image link ironically found on via Bing). It did just what you describe: "search providers (even paid *gasp*) who specialize in certain areas such as history, science, technology, news, etc", bundled into a singly search interface. There was both general purpose search that was free, and it also pulled in and offered premium results from topic-specialty paid providers. You could choose to search the "World Wide Web", or "Special Collections" (the paid part). Or "All Sources" to pull in both. If you had a paid account, you could see more than the excerpt on the "Special Collections" results, and choose which sources to use.
It was the dawn of the Dot-Com 1.0 bubble. Northern Light was our last best hope for that consolidated search. It failed.
At one point, during the Altavista dying-but-not-dead period, while Google was still a total newcomer, it was getting a lot of traction. But it got flanked by Google pretty quickly and sunk. It's now entirely a paid, sold for internal client companies' use, very different product with no public search engine at all. Product called "SinglePoint" and loaded with buzzword bingo in its description.