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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

#171

Will you offer any type of API? I'd be interested

What sort of API, please elaborate ?

Similar to what @truftruf said. You could probably build something similar to RARBG's API (https://torrentapi.org/apidocs_v2.txt). I find it to be immensely useful.

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

#172

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.

Who are you? The tooth fairy? :-)

Yes please, implement this feature.

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

#173
SUGGESTION: instead of using a backend to swift through the torrents, why not host an offline JSON, sqlite or whatever (maybe streaming) client-side data format of your choice that contains the entire index. This way the application is not only offline but can be easily hosted and replicated.

It will be offline and versioned. If the index is too large, than some splitting will be required but I think this is totally doable.

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

#174

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.

+1

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

#175
post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is your adblocker closing the popup as soon as it opens. For users without an adblocker the tab stays open.

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

#176
post #108

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.

Nearly everything that you do on a page is trackable if you have JS enabled including how you moved your mouse on the page (https://api.jquery.com/mousemove/).

To keep the technical details short: the events are logged with JS and sent over either ajax or a websocket in the background as you navigate the site.

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

#179

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.

Yes please!
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