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Yandex is currently the best search engine for pirate stuff. You might need to change the language setting to only show english results, tho, as it gives preference to russian stuff.
If you're on Windows, you can block any address "forever" by running Notepad as an admin and opening the file
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts0.0.0.0 www.whatever.comwill completely block that domain. It won't blockwww.whatever.co.ukorwhatever.com, so you'll have to add one line for each top level domain. It's great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page)Another pro tip: just use an ad blocker, lol.
I think i had to do that for adobe at one point.
This is functionally what PIHole does. Though you can do this with any DNS you control, such as Unbound or Bind.
Why Yandex over other search engines?
Russia has long been a haven for digital piracy and Yandex doesn't block pirate results at all. When I noticed that duckduckgo began quietly censoring some pirate sites I frequented, I ditched it for those purposes.
Yup ororo is a cheap streaming service masquerading as an English teaching tool to avoid regulations. Totally legal in Russia.
Yandex is good. Sometimes Qwant.com and Metager.org will find things, too. When Google/Bing/Yahoo/Startpage, etc., don't find what you're looking for, just try search engines based in other countries. Russia/Yandex probably cares less about western DRM than Qwant/France and Metager/Germany. Incidentally, if you open a VK (aka Vkontakte, Russian Facebook) account, you can also open a mail.ru (part of VK) account. Don't forget to set the UI language to something you understand :)
Pi-hole is worth looking into if you're into this
Pihole is a good option, but it's extra hardware that you need to keep running. Changing your own OS's etc/hosts doesn't need anything you might not have ;)