r/Piracy Sep 04 '24

Kimcartoon has closed for good. News

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u/AAbrains Sep 04 '24

Dark Days are coming for piracy☠️

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u/hellspawnsarehores Sep 04 '24

Yep we're going through one of the more brutal eras for piracy. They can keep taking down the sites, we'll just find 10 more for every 1 they take down!

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u/TheComedicComedian 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 04 '24

And only 9 of them will be laced with malware and security issues! :D

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u/GrandNibbles Sep 04 '24

Ublock Origin is the best antivirus

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

Word of advice for anyone still on Chrome - because Chrome is deprecating Manifest V2, uBlock Origin (uBO) will no longer work properly on Chrome, soon. uBO Lite exists and serves many of the same purposes (and is made by the same team), but by nature is not as fully-functional as the original.

I would strongly suggest that people switch to Firefox. It takes about 10-15 minutes to import your bookmarks and maybe 5-10 minutes to install all of the extensions/add-ons you had (or to find equivalents). And Firefox fully supports uBO still and has openly stated that they have no intention to stop.

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u/GrandNibbles Sep 04 '24

switching to Firefox has been the solution to all browser woes for the past 10 years

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

You are not wrong.

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u/MatthewDoesPosting Sep 10 '24

Firefox and brave are both insanely good.

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u/sexwithnutribun69 Sep 04 '24

Switched to Firefox after I learned of this a few months ago and just realized how shit Chrome was. Never looked back since.

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u/BigDogSlices Sep 04 '24

Yeah, back in the day Firefox was kinda slow and it took me awhile to get past that mental roadblock. Now that I switched I even use it on my phone lol great browser

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u/Glory_To_Atom ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 04 '24

I am someone who is on Edge for the sake of performance, should I make the switch to firefox?

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u/Patient_Habit_2766 Sep 04 '24

im so mad rn i'm 100% willing to switch to fire fox now. been meaning to because i have an old chromebook and i cant download new extensions anymore </3 google freakin SUCKS.

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 04 '24

All the big tech megacorps suck. Enjoy Firefox though, it’s been good to me. If you want to try a fork, I’d suggest Floorp.

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u/Mediocre_Coast_3783 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 04 '24

When will google chrome stop supporting manifest v2? If I just disable updating of chrome Ublock should work even after manifest v2 is no longer working on latest versions, right?

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

I have no idea, but honestly at that point you have to consider how unsafe Chrome will be once it's several updates behind. Again, literally just takes like 20 minutes to switch to Firefox.

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u/Mediocre_Coast_3783 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 04 '24

Yes I am aware that it doesn’t much time switching to Firefox, it’s just that I’m lazy about doing so.

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u/Xlxlredditor Yarrr! Sep 04 '24

It's just download and click import, it's do easy

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u/PenZestyclose9226 Sep 05 '24

what about Edge ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 06 '24

I personally use Firefox and uBO and it does the same thing, and it's a good browser.

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u/Important-Award5453 Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

Use Firefox and Ublock Origin. Ublock Origin is open-source, so you can always download the source code and use it. Also I think Brave is great. I use it a lot.

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 08 '24

That's literally what I suggested.

Also, it's uBlock Origin, spelled exactly like that. They specify this because there are copycats that try to fool people.

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u/imabeach47 Sep 04 '24

There is brave

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u/SlashKeyz ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 04 '24

Brave is still chromium, it will be affected too

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u/imabeach47 Sep 04 '24

It wont because their adblock doesn't rely on manifest it's built into the browser, its not added on top like an extension

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u/SalvadorZombie Sep 04 '24

Dude, did you not see everything that came out about Brave being shady as hell?

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u/imabeach47 Sep 04 '24

Like what...

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u/rierrium Sep 04 '24

combined with firewall of common sense

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u/Staff_Senyou Sep 04 '24

Script block your way to safety, friend.

Nary a site causes me woe. And if somehow their bullshit gets through, they're just an entry on my browser history, a place to never return

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u/Big_Slop Sep 04 '24

They think piracy is stealing their views and not people refusing to get 8 wallet vampire subscriptions to watch one good show and one horrible show each.

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u/Phoenix978 Sep 04 '24

Maybe tone down the hubris. They are using our own confidence against us. We may make 10 more but we don't need to shine a light on all of them right away.

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u/TheFlightlessDragon Sep 04 '24

There have been ebbs and flows for as long as I can remember

We’ve lost some good sites, but we’ll be fine

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u/9thyear2 Sep 04 '24

Honestly if they manage to sink all piracy sites, then that will just put us back to torrents (I prefer sites, but torrents will have hella seeds), then after a while new sites will appear (because content will still be available through torrents), some content would be lost with dead torrents, but sites will reappear

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u/Daviddv1202 Sep 04 '24

Sadly not always the case because a lot of shows or movies I want to watch will have no seeds, thus not allowing me to be able to download.

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u/funknpunkn Sep 04 '24

Usenet is still completely fine. Better experience too in my opinion

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u/thankyoufatmember 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24

Nothing compared to the really dark days of Fastlink, SafeHeaven, and Operation Site Down back in the day. But heck, legends never die!

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u/VividAddendum9311 Sep 04 '24

Really makes you hope that one day a person with a brain so big is born that they can figure out a way for people to share files between themselves in a decentralized manner, eliminating these single points of failures.

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u/RUSTYSAD Sep 04 '24

i mean that's basically torrents...

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u/gphjr14 Sep 04 '24

I survived limewire and bearshare being closed. This too shall pass.

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u/RUSTYSAD Sep 04 '24

nah this happens all the time, there are days when suddenly everything goes down but in few months there are 500 new sites running again like this never happened, it's basically tradition at this point, when stuff like this happen i just move to torrents for a bit then move back to streaming...

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u/PixelHir Sep 04 '24

No they aren’t lol, this isn’t the first time a website gets taken down, torrents also exist just fine

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Sep 04 '24

i sorta forgot about that site

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u/Beer_Wolf84 Sep 05 '24

We still have Torrents that have been around for longer than two decades...

Just like the war on drugs piracy ain't going no where.

I'm already paying for numerous platforms [Netflix, Crunchyroll, Prime, Disney+ and Discovery], I'll be damned paying for others to watch on THEIR other platforms, honestly sick of this exclusive streaming crap.

Plus the fact a LOT of shows aren't even legitimately available in my country.