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

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Post by ComputerGuru »

floatboth wrote: post #158
sergiotapia wrote: post #87

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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).

> you can activate a fresh install with the key that's stored in the laptop (in ACPI tables IIRC).

Free tool we developed to quickly grab that key: http://neosmart.net/OemKeyTool/

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

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Post by [deleted] »

unicornporn wrote: post #172
kasumis_ wrote: post #118

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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.

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

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Post by hkjgkjy »

kasumis_ wrote: post #139
hkjgkjy wrote: post #136

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How is this "If 2 or more users demand , it will be done" policy working for you? Have you used it in other projects prior to this? Curious to hear any stories :).

It's working fine. We are gathering feedback what users want and then do the development instead of we will develop this whether user want it or not. A company once invested more than an year developing a feature, which was rolled back in 1 day after users complained.

> A company once invested more than an year developing a feature, which was rolled back in 1 day after users complained.

Hah! I know that all too well. Great work!

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

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Post by tornadoboy55 »

arghwhat wrote: post #200
mnsc wrote: post #127

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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

Over a browser Window? So If my 1Password window overlaps with my browser window, the page I'm on could sniff the entire 1Password window? Seems like a bunch of FUD..

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

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Post by __david__ »

vlunkr wrote: post #230
supergreg wrote: post #207

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

With transmission you can actually select or deselect individual files.

But not when they're trapped in a .rar or a .iso, at least not in my version of Transmission.

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

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Post by etatoby »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #155
kasumis_ wrote: post #31

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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.

Sphinx Search is orders of magnitude faster and more lightweight than Lucene.

Heck, even PostgreSQL's fulltext indexes would be faster than those Java monsters.

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

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Post by __david__ »

tornadoboy55 wrote: post #234
arghwhat wrote: post #200

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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

Over a browser Window? So If my 1Password window overlaps with my browser window, the page I'm on could sniff the entire 1Password window? Seems like a bunch of FUD..

It's not really polite to call it FUD right off the bat, especially when you're probably just misunderstanding. A browser obviously can't get events from a different app.

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

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Post by morganvachon »

omtinez wrote: post #160
Beltiras wrote: post #146

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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.

Not quite. Windows 8 had most of the same telemetry, but it was off by default and you were given the option to turn it on during or after installation. Windows 10 flipped that on its head by giving you a page during install that said "get started quickly" which automatically turned everything on, and there was a tiny text link at the bottom which said "customize". Clicking that gave you three pages of telemetry-related toggles that you had to manually click to turn off. Even then, basic telemetry (anonymized usage data and crash reports) is still sent to them.

After Windows 10 was released, Microsoft started backporting most of its telemetry capabilities to Windows 8 and 7 and turning them on by default, rendering those versions just as "backdoored" as 10. That was what pushed me to accept that Windows was never going to get better in that regard, and so I've upgraded all my Windows 7 and 8 machines (except my Surface RT obviously) to take advantage of the new features. I'm especially enjoying native NVMe support on my new workstation build; I can't go back to a spinning HDD without feeling like I've stepped 20 years into the past.

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

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Post by bitJericho »

ajsalminen wrote: post #210
manquer wrote: post #198

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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.

magnet links are user-side. They're like email addresses or phone numbers.
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