Uh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sky_plc_logo.png
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#72The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?
Growing up I heard horror stories of people pirating versions of Windows, Office, etc that had backdoors installed. If you download pirated software there isn't a real way to know for 100% certainty that it isn't laced with something . So I avoid it like the plague. Even if the majority don't have anything it only takes the one and then, depending on its level of sophistication, you're screwed.
My favorite was all the pirated copies of Windows 10 that were floating around that supposedly had the telemetry features removed. It always confused me who exactly those were targeting.
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#73Search works incorrectly.
+WORD1 +WORD2 returns WORD1 OR WORD2 instead of empty set if there is no match.
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#74Suggestion: 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.
I don't do web development or design, but is tracking the selection of text that will be copied more difficult that tracking clicks in actual practice?
Yes, clicking a button or link will send a request to the server with some information in the header, such as which browser clicked from which IP.
Selecting the text will trigger no such request, the developer will still know who opened the site and searched for what, but he cannot know the exact torrent that was copied.
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#75Firefox says 'your connection is insecure' and I need to add a security exception. Don't know why.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't do web development or design, but is tracking the selection of text that will be copied more difficult that tracking clicks in actual practice?
Yes, clicking a button or link will send a request to the server with some information in the header, such as which browser clicked from which IP. Selecting the text will trigger no such request, the developer will still know who opened the site and searched for what, but he cannot know the exact torrent that was copied.
clicking a magnet link wont fire a request to the server.
yes you can track who clicked a magnet link with javascript but you can track who selected the text with javascript also.
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#77Don't you realize that you can't build a usable site without mountains of JS and user-tracking scripts? /sarcasm It's really refreshing to see a fast, small efficient site that gets rid of all the bullshit. Congrats!
with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster.
but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.
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#78Uh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sky_plc_logo.png
Sky TV will be on it in no time
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#79What is the business model ?
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#80Suggestion: 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.
If 2 more users recommend this, it will be done.
I never download torrent files, just look for the magnet link. Same feature, why bother downloading?