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
no CDNs as it leads to tracking by CDNs.
Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
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#162Hi, 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.
right on +1
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#163add-free, non-tracking, not accepting donations - call me paranoid but unless I know why are you doing this I have to assume the worst. There simply is no free lunch.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is "right click and copy url" trackable as well? Genuine question.
Maybe not in itself, but "user mouse pointer is above the url" and "user right clicked" are.
It is trackable in itself through the `copy` clipboard event (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/copy). Both keychord and contextual menu will trigger the event.
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#165Looks great. Now, does anyone also know any torrent client that work in the cloud?
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#166Kudos to you, add some categories if possible
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#167https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Javascript Here is a good collection of web-components which can be implemented without using JavaScript. Hope it helps you guys in developing the site. All the best.
Thanks for sharing that! Some of them are just a big pile of CSS which I don't know if it's a better option than JavaScript... But others were pure gold and a very clever use of HTML (like the carousel)
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#168Will you offer any type of API? I'd be interested
What sort of API, please elaborate ?
If the search results had complete JSON responses with all the data (info/magnet, number of peers, ...) that would be really nice.
https://www.skytorrents.in/search/all/ed/1/?q=ubuntu+iso&for...
I don't know if there's a better way, like including all that data in the RSS feed somehow. Otherwise one would have to scrape the HTML to get that data, which would be less reliable.
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#169Earlier 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.
Aren't keys tied to computers these days?
> The keys they sell are those bulk keys large companies get, their IT dep guy wants to make some extra coin on the side
Which make these keys as illegal as pirating Windows. Obviously it is a more secure solution though.
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#170Impressive,I would love to read a blog about the technologies you use.