2019 is the year of the setup cost. Proxies are no longer the convenient shortcut they used to be. If you want stability, spend 10 minutes setting up Tor Browser (free) or invest in a VPN that supports obfuscated servers. The days of clicking a single link and sailing the seas are, sadly, behind us.

DPI looks inside the packet data. If a proxy is just forwarding TPB data, DPI recognizes the pattern and throttles or blocks the connection. This means "transparent proxies" are dying. The only proxies that work in late 2019 are "obfuscating proxies" that scramble the traffic to look like Google Maps traffic. If you are still searching for "Pirate Bay proxy list 2019" on Reddit, you are playing whack-a-mole. By the time you click the third link, the first two will be dead.

In 2019, the only official domain remains thepiratebay.org (and its .onion address for Tor users). Everything else— .sx , .mn , .vc —are third-party mirrors.

Welcome to the state of torrenting in 2019.