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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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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.

Close your port 22 at least. Define some simple iptables rules.

Only able to login if coming from specific ip address, like a private vpn server.

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

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The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?

Security in this space is based on reputation and trust. Users and groups who has a long history of uploading files with no malware is more trusted than freshly created accounts.

To make a analogy, imagine a world where there existed no government food inspectors. I would expect that visiting restaurants would become more dangerous, but my behavior would also change. I would only visit established places where people before me have eaten and proven that the food aren't poisonous.

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

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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.

+1 for the feature

If only HN had some sort of upvote feature.

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

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Hi. I would concur that you guys should get some help with the UI elements. The Verified icon messing up row height aside, on my screen the no. of files column is excessively large, and the size column is too thin that often the unit MB/GB is squeezed down to the second line, which hurts readability.

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

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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).

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

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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

Note: there is a website that shows the real ip addresses of (some?) cloudflare customers: http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html

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

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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.

You should set up an issue/feature request tracker instead of turning HN into one. This sort of stuff makes the discussion unreadable.
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