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Favorites these days?

Get into a good private tracker. All of the public ones kinda suck

I think this depends nowadays. For mainstream movies and shows at quality that would be equivalent to watching on streaming services, public is fine.

rarbg or 1337x if you don't want to join any private trackers.

Obviously, for downloading Linux ISOs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites

I’ve found 1337x.gd to consistently have more content and seeders than rarbg.to if you want to go with a public tracker. Still worth checking rarbg if what you want isn’t there though.

If you like to watch things as they air, make sure you go to the main sites I’ve wrote rather than the mirrors that show up in google. They take a while to update.

They've always been shady. Remember when they were among the first to experiment with crypto mining while you browsed their site?

Not always. Back in the day, it was simply a group of people, not wanting to earn money but to set information free. That was maybe shady in terms of legality, but ethically, nothing has ever been less shady than initial TPB.

Do you mean "TPB" (The Pirate Bay) or am I missing something?

Yep, fixed it, thanks.