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

#321

A few other folks have mentioned this, but a (monthly?) dump of the database, offered as a torrent link on the site would be fantastic. Not only would it enable offline searching, but when the inevitable take down shows up, folks can still continue to search the database.

7 more votes to get it done.

Vote this up!

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

#322

I'm very wary of anything closed which bills itself as privacy focused and "non-tracking". Can you prove these claims openly? Otherwise this is just a public tracker, potentially full of malware and honeypots.

Agreed here, the site is using a backend and who knows what this backend is tracking. It should be a static site and open source, so we can verify the claims.

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

#323

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we only have https version

Will that prevent the GOI (Government of India) from blocking the domain?

Yes, here in India blocking happens on port 80 only. Kind of nice, comply with the requests from the government but don't really block anything for the good of masses.

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

#324
post #322

I'm very wary of anything closed which bills itself as privacy focused and "non-tracking". Can you prove these claims openly? Otherwise this is just a public tracker, potentially full of malware and honeypots.

Agreed here, the site is using a backend and who knows what this backend is tracking. It should be a static site and open source, so we can verify the claims.

We are planning to put up a tor onion frontend and thus tor users can browse even more anonymously.

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

#326

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we only have https version

Well even PirateBay had that... and they can just block DNS requests to the website. You should probably set up a hidden service on Tor.

TOR service will be put in place soon

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

#328

A few other folks have mentioned this, but a (monthly?) dump of the database, offered as a torrent link on the site would be fantastic. Not only would it enable offline searching, but when the inevitable take down shows up, folks can still continue to search the database.

7 more votes to get it done.

That would be really fantastic, and something that is missing from every torrent search engine I've used.

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

#329

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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..

Subject to the same origin policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy

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