Looks great and runs quickly. Couple of UI niggles:
- The verified & marked icon is way larger than the others and completely throws out the spacing
- I find it pretty difficult to tell what page of the results I am on and what pages I have visited
- Because of the point above, a Forward/Back button for pages would be handy
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
#152That's very fast. How much hardware did you have to throw at this? Also, who pays the servers (since you aren't accepting donations)?
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#153Hi, 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.
+1
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In that case a clickable maybe link isn't trackable. Afaik that requires js
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine. [0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
SQLITE cannot handle indexing queries of our kind and is not used. We have kept the page slim, so as the website is as fast as possible.
You could use Sqlite for persistence, but a search index like Lucene for full-text searching - and Lucene runs great in constrained environments too.
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#156Privacy doesn't matter in case of torrents because as soon as you download one, peers will know who are you.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
FIXED Thanks.
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Pirating Windows is pretty stupid these days. You can download the official MS ISO from their website, and buy a real key from some subreddits for like $20. The keys they sell are those bulk keys large companies get, their IT dep guy wants to make some extra coin on the side. But they work.
Also:
- if you bought a laptop with preinstalled Windows, you can activate a fresh install with the key that's stored in the laptop (in ACPI tables IIRC). Just make sure it's the same edition and language.
- if you're a student, check if you have DreamSpark (er, Imagine) Premium. Apparently Windows Server is available even in the non-Premium program (for all students).
Re: Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
#159Suggestions:
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
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
And the crying shame there is that Win8 did the same sort of spying.
Actually, no. Microsoft instrumented essentially every OS component (and sharing backend infrastructure, universal telemetry client, etc.) starting in Windows 10. Prior to that, it was just a few isolated pieces that had their own kind of telemetry.