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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

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hey, just a thought, but at some point if this gets too popular you will probably get a message from the UK TV company SKY who wont be super happy about your name.

Or the favicon that looks like it was lifted straight from on old version of their website.

hah yes i hadn't spotted that but now you point it out i realise it was itching the back of my brain.

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

#193

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…

Archived bundles of files having significant names are important! Torrents of opaque disk images and archives (e.g. pirated software) or video files (e.g. pirated movies and TV series episodes) might be popular, but the strong suit of BitTorrent are carefully crafted and often very large collections of books, music, emulator ROM files etc.

we may consider giving priority to bigger torrents.

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

#194

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.

I love this! Vote for a feature, is fantastic!

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

#195
post #190

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If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?

It appears to be using Caddy at least https://caddyserver.com/

Caddy is just used as a reverse proxy, a frontend for the backends.

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

#196

What's the chance of this getting a simple API which can be fed into flexget or similar?

are you talking about RSS, it's already there as soon as make a query to feed into flexget.

I totally hadn't made that connection, thanks!

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

#197

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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

The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.

I'm sure you'll right. The MPAA will get this taken down as soon as they are aware of it. Which is a shame because it's a very nice looking and functional website.

Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.

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

#198

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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

not if the link itself is unique for each user trivial to implement, this is how email campaigns track what you clicked in a email ( email after all do not server js)

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

#199

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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.

The parent was asking whether the "Copy Link Address" (Chrome) or similar is other browsers is trackable though, not the more general copy to clipboard.

I don't think that one is.

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

#200
post #127
post #110

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Selecting and copying are both definitely trackable.

Is "right click and copy url" trackable as well? Genuine question.

Yes and yes - Right click raises an event, and copy specifically raises an event.

If in doubt: If it happens over or in a browser window, it is probably trackable from JavaScript.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/copy

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