A standard proxy list is obsolete by the time you finish reading it. Official vs. Unofficial: The Trust Issue There is no such thing as an "Official Pirate Bay Proxy."

If a proxy asks you to "disable adblock" and then pops up a dozen fake "Download" buttons, close the tab immediately. Proxies are dying, but three methods are thriving this year:

The Pirate Bay Proxy Maze: A 2019 Guide to Accessing the Unblockable

Rightsholders have wised up. Instead of just suing The Pirate Bay itself, they are now aggressively targeting proxy services under copyright law (specifically the Copyright Directive in the EU). Over the last six months, we have seen massive "proxy busts" where domains like thepiratebay.rocks or piratebay.live get seized and redirected to anti-piracy notices within 48 hours of launching.