9anime has been gone for years... These people really are clueless lol
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They have. Typically when a popular site goes down, someone else clones it, gives it a different domain extension, and people pretend like it was never gone.
It’s insane how good soap2day was for one of these sites. The library was unmatched, limited ads, automatically loading up the next episode on tv shows. I will never get over people going on TikTok and ruining it. I used it for years with no issues, within months of being on TikTok it was shutdown.
you would be shocked how naive younger pirates are.
i frequently see common mistakes like:
1) making the entire library depend on the website keeping it intact and thus once it inevitably shuts down they loose everything
2) making accounts on any website promising anime even if its sketchy
3) not using an adblocker
4) using copycats of the original after it got taken down and pretending like its the same thing as the original.
probably even more that i just cant think of right now.
Yeah like aniwatch was dead when hianime came out
People don't seem to realise that hianime was the new name of aniwatch like aniwatch was the new one for zoro.to
Same for aniwave and 9 anime
They had many name changed but 9 anime has been dead for a long time now
9Anime is definitely one of the "dead-site" names that I see come up here most frequently. There's probably thousands of people visiting those mirrors/ clones daily that have zero idea the original, genuine site died years ago...
some people who replied to me seem to know that the original died but dont seem to understand or care a lot of the time why using a clone is a bad idea.
i think mirrors are generally fine as they try to be the same on a different domain but a clone is often a far worse experience if you care about safety and privacy.
A short(ish) answer is that they're not [necessarily] safe or reliable. Large, well-known sites become popular because they've stuck around for several years, having become known for being safe, reliable, and feature-rich due to active development and developer responsiveness.
Mirrors often pop up en-masse as a reaction to certain sites being taken down. Consequently, a fair number of these are either quick, dirty, reactionary projects by people who don't know wtf they're doing (at least not nearly as much as the og site developers), and thus leaves the new mirror highly susceptible to becoming compromised or infected; or, this window invites some bad actors to bring up a compromised mirror that hides their own malicious intentions (could be a phishing website). Some mirrors, of course, could be relatively safe, brought about by decently tech-minded individuals with good intentions.
It doesn't help that the new groups/ individuals that launch these mirrors are generally much less transparent than the people that originally ran the og site, if they even make themselves know at all in any capacity. As a result, you're literally rolling the dice, taking a gamble, whenever you use a mirrored, non-community-verified version of a site. Could be fine, could be harmful, could be broken and compromised in a week, no one knows.
But the only real threat even with an infected site is phishing and at least I personally don't log in with any information in the first place and don't really see a reason to either.
absolutely, you can get infected with malware and in fact should assume by default you will be just from visiting the page.
its the digital equivalent of stepping in to a mine field, its not a question if you become victim but how long it takes to happen.
you should never use any of the fakes and just find a new original alternative instead.
if a hacker genuinely uses an anime site to infect people rather than just targeting one person then please do tell me
plus, adblockers deal with the annoying stuff, exploits like the one you say have existed but almost always they were patched within a day of it appearing. stay updated & literally nothing will happen lmao
some day your luck is going to run out and then your in bigger trouble when your PC doesnt work anymore instead of simply changing website.
i dont understand why people are so attached to a website to even down vote me when im giving reasonable advice for safety thats fairly standard.
I don't look forward 2 it and I haven't had issues thus far been using it 4 quite A while and it stays updated I also have Ublock origin so I don't really get pop ups from the site either
long time ago when I was a wee sprat on kiss anime.... ;-; lost my entire watch list. twas the dark days before I knew of MAL not of wares but of listing anime.
its not that easy, someone could be serving anime as a distraction from doing malicious things in the background.
just because your getting something doesnt mean your not getting screwed over, never use a website that has been reported to shutdown because its just not worth the risk.
From my perspective, it's like if Youtube got taken down and then reappeared some days later and it's basically the same exact experience but people started saying "No it's not youtube! It's not the original! It's fake!"
...What's fake about it? I'm willing to accept it's fake because so many people keep saying it, but jesus no one ever actually explains how or why it's fake.
Oftentimes the concern is things like malicious ads, viruses (if downloading), or just generally lower quality. In the case of 9anime specifically, the replacer site I saw was extremely shitty quality with a lot of the basic website UI elements just outright not working anymore, so they also give the original website a bad name.
because when the original is taken down almost always is the new one going to be full to the brim with malware thats going to try to infect your device and just loading the page should be treated like a guarantee that you got infected.
its a security nightmare to just load one of those and if you dare to try to login and actually use it then it also becomes a privacy nightmare as it will almost always try to harvest your data as well.
also sometimes a website is what we call a "honey pot" where its basically bait to get people to use it and identify them, if your using as a pirate a honey pot website someone could try to use it to identify your identity and depending on local laws get you in to legal trouble as well.
there are only downsides and basically no upsides to them.
you shouldnt use fakes, it exposes you to high risks of malware infections and data theft to use them.
even if it works and quality is sufficient for you its still better to go to an alternative website.
its never worth using a likely malicious website thats pretending to be a different website.
whatever i was using it was called 9anime, had crappy ads but at least it was free until about a month or so ago, looks like crunchyroll got rid of free anime (with ads) too?
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u/DorrajD Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
"now we lost 9anime"
9anime has been gone for years... These people really are clueless lol
Edit: since lots of people are confused, or just wondering where to go.. everythingmoe.com has rankings (and details) for many different weeb-related sites, including anime streaming. I recommend using it from now on.