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Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by supergreg »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #120
yakult wrote: post #40

Suggestion: get rid of the torrent files and just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button. This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth.

Alternatively: Just don't log downloads of the torrent file? Those who care can use the magnet link, those who have a use case for the torrent file can get the unlogged torrent file. I prefer using torrent files, because I can just wget/curl them down into a directory being watched by my server which downloads torrents.

You can use aria2c on the command line to generate the torrent file from the magnet link, so it's just as easy, only a little slower.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by mulrian »

buro9 wrote: post #159

Suggestions: 1. Enable whois privacy via Gandi 2. Hide your server IPs behind Cloudflare 3. Ensure the site is written such that it is trivial for yourself and others to use alternate domain names

Yeah the whois thing should be done ASAP before you start to take on more users.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by JshWright »

ryanbrunner wrote: post #204
stavros wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clickable magnet links are fine, since the query doesn't actually go to the server.

I think the point is that the clicks could be tracked via Javascript, even if the links themselves point elsewhere.

If we're allowing javascript, then you might as well use links. It would be just as easy to check for selected text to find out what the user copied from the page.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by mike-cardwell »

supergreg wrote: post #211
mike-cardwell wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternatively: Just don't log downloads of the torrent file? Those who care can use the magnet link, those who have a use case for the torrent file can get the unlogged torrent file. I prefer using torrent files, because I can just wget/curl them down into a directory being watched by my server which downloads torrents.

You can use aria2c on the command line to generate the torrent file from the magnet link, so it's just as easy, only a little slower.

That looks good. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

darawk wrote: post #110
jvzr wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's still trackable via JS for instance. Selecting & copying plain text are (AFAIK) not trackable, hence the suggestion from parent.

Selecting and copying are both definitely trackable.

Presumably if you select and copy from a page's source view (eg via Inspect in FF) then you'd overcome tracking of specific interactions?

Or if you just block scripts.

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