{"id":73553,"date":"2023-06-11T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=73553"},"modified":"2023-06-11T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T09:02:03","slug":"bing-asks-users-how-they-protect-themselves-on-the-pirate-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=73553","title":{"rendered":"Bing Asks Users How They Protect Themselves On The Pirate Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bill<\/a>The success of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT inspired Microsoft to add more AI features to its Bing search engine. <\/p>\n

The idea is that this will allow users to receive more elaborate answers compared to an ordinary list of links. <\/p>\n

Whether this strategy will pay off has yet to be seen, but in our tests, something else stood out. People are not the only ones asking questions. Bing itself is quite interested to hear what its users think too. <\/p>\n

Bing\u2019s Pirate Bay Poll<\/h2>\n

As expected, a regular keyword search for \u201cPirate Bay\u201d returns a lot of information about the site. In addition to the correct URL, which was previously absent<\/a>, Bing also lists an intriguing poll. Specifically, it wants to know how people effectively protect themselves while using The Pirate Bay. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Poll is in the bottom right corner<\/strong><\/center>
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Bing provides its users with four options to choose from, including the use of a VPN, a proxy, the Tor browser, or a dedicated IP address. Depending on one\u2019s definition of \u2018safe\u2019 a VPN is the most obvious answer, which is also reflected in the results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This poll has little to do with ChatGPT of course but it is possible that Bing somehow uses the results to improve its general search functionality. Or perhaps these questions are generated by AI?<\/p>\n

As a small experiment, we decided to ask Bing the same question it asked us (What is the most effective way to protect yourself while using The Pirate Bay?<\/em>). And indeed, a VPN does up as the answer in a massive font. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Torrent Clients, Fmovies, RARBG, and The Dark Web<\/h2>\n

User polls aren\u2019t exclusive to The Pirate Bay. There are several other file-sharing and piracy-related topics where other polls appear. When we type BitTorrent, for example, we\u2019re asked about our favorite torrent client. <\/p>\n

The options are rather limited but with 57%, uTorrent is the clear winner, followed by qBitTorrent with nearly a quarter of the votes. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"torrent<\/center><\/p>\n

When we search for Fmovies, one of the most popular pirate streaming sites, Bing suddenly wants to know what movie genres we watch most often on the site. Here, \u2018action\u2019 is the public\u2019s favorite with nearly half of the votes. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"fmovies\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, RARBG\u2019s demise<\/a> has yet to be reflected in Bing\u2019s data. The search engine mentions a copycat site as the top result and still asks<\/a> whether people think that a VPN is necessary to access RARBG.<\/p>\n

Finally, there\u2019s also a poll about the dark web, but perhaps it\u2019s best if we don\u2019t mention that<\/a> explicitly. <\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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The success of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT inspired Microsoft to add more AI features to its Bing search engine. The idea is that this will allow users to receive more elaborate answers compared to an ordinary list of links. Whether this strategy will pay off has yet to be seen, but in our tests, something else stood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}