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Torrent sites have amazing search ... just saying

Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)

A bit deeper into the scene, there are no ads anymore. And the biggest problem for most people in the west, is rather just using torrents without a VPN will get you lawyers letters quite quickly. But Joe average can use youtube downloader without danger.

I’ve torrented for decades, never received such a letter.

They only send them to ISPs in major markets such as the US, and some providers just redirect them to /dev/null, but a lot of providers that are larger will terminate your service for repeated violatioins.

I hadn't done it in years either... Then just recently downloaded a show. Less than 5 minutes later, I have an email from my ISP with the name of the show telling me to stop it.

Very few countries in Europe have that issue, and afaik no country in the americas.

Even with full encryption?

What do you want to encrypt?

The principle of torrents are, everyone downloading has the ip of all the other participants for p2p to work. All it takes is one node recording that other nodes send copywrited data to them, to get the real adresses of them (via ISP).

They hire dedectives to do that.

There is https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr

yep: seedbox + this + jeyllfin = unlimited streaming of anything i want for $15/month. no ads, no terrible app UIs, no autoplaying previews, no content getting removed, not having 4 different streaming subscriptions that are hard to cancel, no fuckery at all.

I set this up for my husband who barely knows which end of a PC to use. He's filled up the 4TB media array and now I need more disks (or better retention policies)

It means it gets a lot of use, so you can justify larger disks! Isn't that great?

4tb is not a lot, but I've realised if its for personal use you could just delete things you've already watched.

particularly tv shows, unless you really really want to keep them.

its not necessary to delete movies, IMO, as a 4k HDR 5.1 movie will go for about 30gbs. Not that much.

Delete things? Never!

And nzb360

Ahhhhh, nzbs

One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.

And the client has optional web UI, so you can order a download from your phone and watch it on your TV (through jellyfin or plex).

Better ads with free stuff than ads with paid stuff.

>Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads.

You don't have to click those.

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