>>3944895I think they've added more filters to the account settings, like guro and such. You have to be really attentive with the settings when setting up your account and check how they affect your search results.
By the way, the most convenient way to view Pixiv on desktop is through one of the PixivFE front-ends.
https://pixivfe-docs.pages.dev/instance-list/Be aware, however, that each instance's default settings depend on how the hoster configured the default account, like anon said, R-18 shotas may be censored in the searches if the guy didn't set location to japan, or, depending on language settings, tag translations may or may not return the results for the original tags, like 'furry' may (not) be aliased to ??? and such. Account-wide AI filters may also not be disabled on some instances.
TLDR, see what results your searches net on different instances and pick whichever one works best. pixivfe.thebunny.zone seems like a solid choice from what I've seen.
You can also bring your own account in the settings, but 100% use a throwaway for that and always assume the instance owner could snoop in or hijack whatever account you put in there.
The best way to view Pixiv on mobile is through the PixEz client.
https://github.com/Notsfsssf/pixez-flutterIt has unlimited artist/tag/artwork black lists and will show you the first 30 pictures of popularity sorting mode without a premium account (Pixiv exposes this data to put a premium AD in the tag searches, LMAO).
All opensource pixiv clients like this one get assfucked pretty hard by Pixiv authentication, and this one being 90% in chinese and 10% in google translate doesn't help. I don't remember how fucked the login process for this one in particular is, but tell me if you have difficulties.
And, of course, the best way to scrape Pixiv (also the secret true best way to view it on desktop) is with PixivUtil2
https://github.com/Nandaka/PixivUtil2But scraping's a pretty long story so I'll only tell it on demand.
