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

#111

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If 2 more users recommend this, it will be done.

What's the intent/desire for you to be on the delivering end of serving .torrent files?

Tangible/easy mirroring of the torrent database? Then again, DHT wouldn't go down.

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

#112
post #97

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I never download torrent files, just look for the magnet link. Same feature, why bother downloading?

It's not the same.you'll be missing some of the trackers.

Magnet URLs can and usually do include all of the trackers.

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#magnet-uri-form...

That being said DHT and PEX (BEP 5 and BEP 11) is good enough that you don't need them.

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

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post #108

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> 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.

The site serves no JS. Of course you shouldn't trust the site, so you should disable JS explicitly (via NoScript or other means) too.

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

#115

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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.

The magnet links can be in the page, and downloads and copy/paste UX can be achieved via JS just the same as server-backed as far as the end-user is concerned. This way the entire execution of the page can be audited.

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

#116
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post #34

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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…

Will be used ASAP

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

#117
Hi,

Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent.

To date the only site I know that does this is "filelisting dot com" but their website is very slow.

Do you have any plans to extend your product to add this feature. Maybe as a premium option?

Super useful to find single documents contained within archived bundles of files.

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

#118

Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent. To date the only site I know that does this is "filelisting dot com" but their website is very slow. Do you have any plans to extend your product to add this feature. Maybe as a premium option? Super useful to find single documents contained w…

If 3 more users vote this feature, It will be provided for free to everyone and it will provided at the same speeds as the current website.

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

#119

Hi, Love the site especially the speed. But disappointed that the search indexes the name of the container of the torrent only and not the name of the files within the torrent. To date the only site I know that does this is "filelisting dot com" but their website is very slow. Do you have any plans to extend your product to add this feature. Maybe as a premium option? Super useful to find single documents contained w…

If 3 more users vote this feature, It will be provided for free to everyone and it will provided at the same speeds as the current website.

Add my vote too. Thanks for your great work!

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

#120
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.

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