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!g leads to Google, who also blocks yt-dl and other similar tools.

Edit: I was wrong.

Uh, what? youtube-dl.org is the first result for youtube-dl on Google, followed by GitHub repo, ytdl-org.github.io, Wikipedia, etc.

TPB is the first result too. IIRC at one point searching for TPB only returned proxy sites, but that doesn’t appear to be the case now.

Any source on that? I just searched both "youtube-dl" and "pirate bay" and got reasonable-looking results.

You don't get "reasonable-looking" results for "pirate bay" on google.

My first result is https://thepiratebay.org and the rest of the page is proxies.

Weird, I only get shady proxies and the wikipedia page.