THE PIRATE BAY IS UNDER THE RADAR AGAIN! CHROME AND FIREFOX NOW SHOW THEPIRATEBAY DOMAIN AS A MALICIOUS SITE TO VISIT WHILE COMODO’S SECURE DNS SHOWS TPB IS A HACKING WEBSITE.

In May 2016 when ThePirateBay was still on .SE, the extensions in Google Chrome, FireF0x and Safari browsers marked the domain as potentially dangerous to visit. Their reason was the domain could drop malware or carry a phishing attack against visitors.

But after being forced to give up its .SE domain, the ThePirateBay went .ORG and warnings about being malicious site to visit magically disappeared from all three browsers. However, today users around the world are reporting that they are unable to download torrents from the site without going through a security alert on both Google Chrome and FireFox browsers.

On Chrome users can see ”The site ahead contains harmful programs” alert whilst FireFox users can see ”Reported Unwanted Software Page!” alert.

“Attackers on thepiratebay.org might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience (for example, by changing your homepage or showing extra ads on sites you visit),” the warning adds.

Google Safe Browsing checker has also marked TPB as potentially dangerous site to visit:
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If you want to you can dodge the browser warning by disabling security warnings completely in the settings, but it will put your PC/laptop at serious risk.