Kickass Torrents also appears to have been rendered inaccessible for some Firefox users, who complained on Twitter. RARBG and ExtraTorrent, influential piracy sites that have no affiliation with Kickass, were also subjected to warnings before returning to normal days later, TorrentFreak reported. But Google's Chrome browser appears to have ranked the actual site lower in its search rankings, and visitors who click the page are instead shown a “This site contains harmful programs” warning. Googling “Kickass Torrents,” one of the most popular websites in the world where visitors can download Hollywood movies for free (and illegally) often before they come out of theaters, turns up the site's Wikipedia, Twitter page and various piracy-related articles. The new measure is part of Google's SafeBrowsing initiative, which scours for websites that might contain harmful material, although the change seemed to be news to the piracy sites themselves. Google Chrome users trying to access Kickass Torrents and other piracy sites via Google's search results are instead being sent to a bright red page warning them that the site ahead is dangerous to visit.
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