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Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over 'Harmful Programs' (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the malware-attack dept.

An anonymous reader shares a TorrentFreak report: Chrome and Firefox are actively blocking direct access to the The Pirate Bay's download pages. According to Google's Safe Browsing diagnostics service TPB contains "harmful programs," most likely triggered by malicious advertisements running on the site. Comodo DNS also showed a "hacking" warning but this disappeared after a few hours.

4 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. But not Forbes? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Informative
    A site that demands you allow them to install malware, and has proven already to have done so.

    I already block them for that reason.

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  2. It just gives you a warning by ArtemaOne · · Score: 4, Informative

    It isn't a block, it is a warning. Works just fine.

  3. Re:Not too far from the truth, honestly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...TPB and KAT would spawn no end of pop ups and new tabs ...And Adblock seemed powerless to stop it.

    This is why people use Adblock AND NoScript

  4. Re:Not too far from the truth, honestly. by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Never had that issue with KAT and uBlock. TPB doesn't give me pop-ups but the many "mirrors" do. Make sure you are on the genuine site: https://thepiratebay.org/

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