Hey, Cohost! I'm enthusiastic about piracy, and though there are a lot of guides out there, I wanted to write up something that's both general-purpose and gets in-depth about how to pirate safely and efficiently, and hopefully, is clear no matter how little experience you have.

Getting pirated files

Before you can start pirating, you need to know where to go to find pirate media - there are a lot of sites out there, some quite obscure. r/Piracy maintains a masterlist of pirate sites that they consider trustworthy, as well as sites that are known to be malicious or likely to contain malware.

As noted in the masterlist, it's also highly recommended that you install an adblocker before pirating. Many reputable sites still have intrusive and possibly malicious ads. uBlock Origin is available for Firefox and Chrome, and well-regarded. The Firefox browser itself comes with some ad-blocking and privacy features.

Pirate websites can be loosely divided by whether they provide direct downloads, torrents, or both.

daily knowledge: this is Red Moon Desert. it was included as a desktop background on Windows XP, and like Bliss, the photo was taken by the National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear. during development it was used as the default background, but this was changed when people complained that it looked too much like an ass.

want a search engine landing page made by a shark? https://suricrasia.online/search provides links to a variety of search engines and also gives wikipedia and marginalia search results

I made this because I want to be able to:

1. pick a search engine after I type in my query, instead of picking it first with address bar prefixes—this also allows me to press the back button and pick a different engine if the one I picked first doesn't give what I want
2. get wikipedia results quicky (a large percentage of what I search is just me wanting to see the wiki article)
3. see marginalia results before I fallback on my preferred search engine, because sometimes there is good stuff there