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

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Post by Fnoord »

disiplus wrote: post #77
CaptSpify wrote: post #27

Don'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.

I never see any banners on Imgur. I block banners.

What Extratorrents and The Pirate Bay do tho seems to be something akin to clickjacking. I click on a link to a torrent search result (or a download link), a tab opens, and it immediately closes. Rest assured this generates them money.

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

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Post by leni536 »

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.

> This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth.

I don't get this. It's a magnet link with magnet protocol. It will be handled by your torrent client, no additional request to the server whatsoever if you click on them. It's the same as plain text copying, but more convenient.

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

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Post by kasumis_ »

platinumm wrote: post #95

Thanks , for such search engine,that really includes no javascript and no cookies in any form. Secondly Its amazingly fast, I believe its more than just C language. I tried different combinations of searches on your search engine to check whether results are being served from cache or so. And it looks all searches(don't know your cache/uncache db design) are several times faster comparable to many. + +1 for speed. Al…

Please file the bug on the email address mentioned on the website.

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

#104

Post by cm2187 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #85
slg wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My guess: one's mother / uncle / neighbour who wants Windows 10 on his/her laptop, but heard about it spying on you and does not want that. I know that the usual rule of thumb is that "normals don't understand or care about complicated technical issues" such as privacy. But Windows 10 telemetry was so widely discussed in media, that I noticed even the non-tech people around me were refusing to upgrade from Win8 to Wi…

Lots of non technical people I know find that creepy without really being sure of what to do about it.

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

#106

Post by kasumis_ »

quasiuna wrote: post #92
kasumis_ wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Server side sorting is already being done :)

On the issue of sorting, it should be labelled ASC for Ascending, not AESC. That's the only fault I can find...

will be fixed

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

#107

Post by leni536 »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #52
carbonmachine wrote: post #37

The 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.

> isn't a real way to know for 100% certainty that it isn't laced with something.

There are iso hashes on MSDN. You can read them with a free account.

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

#108

Post by jvzr »

leni536 wrote: post #102
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.

> This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth. I don't get this. It's a magnet link with magnet protocol. It will be handled by your torrent client, no additional request to the server whatsoever if you click on them. It's the same as plain text copying, but more convenient.

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

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

#109

Post by Fnoord »

zyxzkz wrote: post #34
kasumis_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We donot have plans on open sourcing soon, but we love open-source. Making it open-source will be considered in future for sure.

You should consider open sourcing the static pages/text at least, so people can improve paragraphing, punctuation, and grammar/spell correct: "donot" should be "do not" (separate words) "atleast" should be "at least" (separate words) I realize English is probably not your first language, so no big deal, but it would be nice to fix.

Here's a better version. I'd e-mail it, but I don't use PGP...

[Feel free to change do not to don't. Torrents and Javascript may be capitalised or not.]

This is a clean, ad-free, privacy focused torrent search engine. Like Google/Yahoo but just for torrents (at least for now). This project is still under heavy development. Feedback is welcome, please report any problems or bugs.

We do not track users in any form and therefore. We do not use cookies or javascript in any form. We do not sell any data to anyone.

The entire project is maintained up to date by smart software. Manual intervention is limited but still there. Every hour hundreds of new torrents are discovered and made available for search purposes.

This is currently in beta testing. You can send feedbacks or report any problems to admin (at) skytorrents.in.

Note: Any mails which do not use PGP are discarded by automated software.

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

#110

Post by darawk »

jvzr wrote: post #108
leni536 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth. I don't get this. It's a magnet link with magnet protocol. It will be handled by your torrent client, no additional request to the server whatsoever if you click on them. It's the same as plain text copying, but more convenient.

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.
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