The Pirate Bay Torrent Search Chrome Extension Analysis
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming HacksChrome extension ID: enfgmbhdgelbkmhhhdiljfimmcghnalc
A Chrome extension that enables users to search The Pirate Bay using a live ProxyBay mirror. It extracts magnet links and presents search results directly within a browser popup, allowing for filtering and sorting by seeders, leechers, and date.
Overview
Installs
10K+
Rating
★ 3.8
15 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming Hacks
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a streamlined, safer alternative to visiting The Pirate Bay directly. It emphasizes the use of active proxies to deliver search results in a popup, effectively bypassing ad-riddled mirror sites.
Inferred product pattern
A proxy-based search wrapper designed to decouple search functionality from a potentially blocked or ad-heavy third-party website.
Review-backed pain points
Users report the extension failing to load proxy lists, becoming stuck in infinite search loops, and a popup window that is too narrow to see file size information.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of search state persistence (results disappear when navigating away) and limited popup window dimensions.
- Torrent users
- Privacy-conscious downloaders
- The Pirate Bay users
- Searching for torrents without navigating to the main website
- Accessing Pirate Bay via working proxies
- Quickly retrieving magnet links
- Avoids ad-heavy websites
- Easy to use
- Effective search functionality
- Failure to load proxy lists
- Infinite search loops
- UI size constraints
- Loss of search state upon navigation
- Performance complaints detected
- Review-backed pricing data is not available.
Support
No specific support interaction complaints observed in the provided reviews.
Reliability
Significant reports of the tool not working for some users, specifically citing 'Waiting for the proxy list' or endless searching.
Privacy
No privacy complaints observed; the listing explicitly mentions parsing HTML to avoid loading external scripts for safety.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 1
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 0.2.7
- Size: 73.4KiB
- Last updated:
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