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Well, sure. But it’s very hard these days to find torrents without jumping through lots of nasty hoops. Especially now that RARBG has ceased to operate.

The other day I was trying to download Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I went to “1337x” but I just kept getting ads wherever I clicked. Yuck. The whole experience just felt humiliating. In the end I just opened Apple’s “TV” app and bought the movie for $9 instead. Hopefully a (small) portion of that will go to the funding of new great movies. (Well, the odds for that might be high, but one can still dream…)

With that said, if anyone knows of any decent trackers out there, feel free to get in touch. (My e-mail is in my profile.)

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> The other day I was trying to download Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I went to “1337x” but I just kept getting ads wherever I clicked.

I use it all the time (today, yesterday, the day before) and I've never seen an ad, or even clicked on one on l337x.

I can pretty much guess your browser from the experience you posted.

Use Firefox. You won't notice a performance difference, all the pages still work, and the web is so much nicer.

It’s not about the the browser. As others have pointed out, in order to use these sites without getting messages like “please upgrade your Adobe Flash plugin”, one needs to use an ad-blocker such as uBlock Origin.

I like uBlock Origin but these anti-patterns really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

> In the end I just opened Apple’s “TV” app and bought the movie for $9 instead.

In my case, I have to pirate the movie because I couldn't find any streaming service which stream my movie, especially the director's cut or final cut. I once paid apple to buy a movie just to find out that half of the movie is cut due to censorship.

Yeah that sucks. The streaming sites are often user-hostile. And their selection of quality movies is not terribly impressive.

I just realized that Blade Runner is now in the category of "alternative history," like what happened with Back to the Future in 2015. The title for the opening scene displays November, 2019 as the date.

I just search from in Qbittorrent; I don't ever visit torrent sites directly. Also, why not use an adblocker?

Interesting! How does that work? i.e. where does Qbittorrent get the results from? Would be cool if that could be done outside of Qbittorrent (for those of us who uses other clients).

I usually browse torrent sites in incognito mode, where uBlock is not active. Perhaps I should just set up a new browser profile for that instead.

PS. OTOH, I’m not really shure why I should trust a site that sends me away to other sites when I click on links. Talk about dark pattern…

I forgot to mention there's also Jackett:

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

Qbittorrent uses plugins to the sites themselves (including to the local Jackett instance via an API):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficia...

And it's what I use to search for torrents.

I would never trust a site without an adblocker and keep uBlock active in Private Mode.

But with all this, you need to know what you're searching for, browsing for content is another story

Torrent galaxy, limetorrents, 1337, eztv

There err also private trackers file list and iptorrents are not hard to get into i hear

Torrenting definitely is possible. But based on my own experiences I would definitely not call it convenient. Still very useful though, since there are lots of older movies that are not available on streaming (especially for us living outside of the US).

That’s always been my disappointment with streaming, unlike music we’re most things are on most services movies and shows you often cannot find on anyone them let alone even buy physical copies anymore

1337x and it's mirrors does not have ads. You ended up on some proxy site.

I’m not so sure about that.

According to [0] the domain x1337x·eu should be a real mirror, and it definitely has ads.

[0] https://1337x-to.github.io/domains

real mirrors can become rogue ones?

Yep. And that’s not really a selling point in favour of the convenience of torrents…

I mean torrents are not mirrors,

torrents can be shared with content identifiers, magnet links ,which don't need to be hosted on a server.

uBlock Origin

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