Products · Broad category
Piracy sites
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 10 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Piracy sites, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Must click through multiple streams until one works, often with ads in the way2026-04-14
- Clicking links leads to traps and misleading landmines2026-03-19
- Search results are unpredictable and pop-up ads or scam download prompts interrupt the user2025-11-07
- Pirating requires know-how to find torrents, match subtitles, and set up players2024-02-05
- Interface is bad and ads are horrendous2023-05-20
- Pirated music is hard to sync across devices and requires too much hassle2023-01-05
- Sites are overrun with huge video ads, slow and bloated even with an ad blocker2022-03-04
- Unofficial download sites are hard to trust and bombard users with popup ads2021-12-28
- Hard to navigate, misleading warning banner, and search doesn't work2019-10-21
- Hard for non-experts to search for and find content2013-02-27