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

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Post by lucasverra »

kasumis_ wrote: post #118
jimparkins wrote: post #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 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 for the feature

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

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Post by arghwhat »

jvzr wrote: post #108
leni536 wrote: post #102

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.

Text select and copy raises the respective events in supported browsers. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/copy for the copy event.

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

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Post by imgabe »

cabalamat wrote: post #197
leereeves wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Unless it's a honeypot run by the MPAA ... doffs tinfoil hat

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

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Post by ryanbrunner »

stavros wrote: post #184
unicornporn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button That would make it impossible to copy the magnet link from the search results page, which I believe is a really nice usability perk. For users that are less technically inclined, clickable links could be crucial (even if it gives you the theoretical possibility to track the click). I guess it depends on if you are prepared to be a search engine only fo…

Clickable magnet links are fine, since the query doesn't actually go to the server.

I think the point is that the clicks could be tracked via Javascript, even if the links themselves point elsewhere.

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Post by StavrosK »

buro9 wrote: post #159

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

Will Cloudflare work for this kind of stuff? I assume you guys comply with DMCA takedowns and things?

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Post by StavrosK »

ryanbrunner wrote: post #204
stavros wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clickable magnet links are fine, since the query doesn't actually go to the server.

I think the point is that the clicks could be tracked via Javascript, even if the links themselves point elsewhere.

Ah, that's true, I kind of assumed no client-side trickery, as it would be easily detectable.

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

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Post by supergreg »

HelloNurse wrote: post #187
jimparkins wrote: post #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 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.

It's frustrating when you are downloading one big rar file just because you need one of the small files inside.

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

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Post by supergreg »

yakult wrote: 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.

> magnet urls in plain text

A magnet as a link would be more useful. I'm sure the people worried about letting others know what they download can copy the link without clicking anyway.

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

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Post by jasonkostempski »

manquer wrote: post #198
bitJericho wrote: post #154

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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)

doesn't that only work for sites the link creator has control of? i don't see how the technique can be used with links a search engine finds and then gives out to anon users.

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

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Post by ajsalminen »

manquer wrote: post #198
bitJericho wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

In that case the plain text link would be just as trackable.
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