Not sure if it's a bug, but a common search for '1080p' returns no results (and takes around 10 seconds): https://www.skytorrents.in/search/all/ed/1/?q=1080p
Same with searching '720p'
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#332Any plans on providing search API?
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
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..
You built a strawman, but it can actually be dangerous to interact with an application on the same screen as a browser!
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? A triplicated datum gives reasonable certainty that the complainant did not accidentally mis-identify the copyrighted work. The takedown requests are a waste of the complainant's time, anyway. The site does not host any files, and a listing of facts, such as the contents of a telephone book, is not eligible for copyright protections. Such a request is equivalent to a demand to remove someone's telephone numb…
Saying magic words in legalese that sound "right" to the choir in the court of public opinion is necessary but not sufficient to see through to overturning standing precedent in courts of law. Maintaining, and abiding by, a DMCA policy is the price of doing business online in the US and WIPO treaty countries.
Yes, of course. When Simon says, "Stand on one foot.", you stand on one foot.
My goal is not to fix the US legal system. I personally believe that having enough money is a greater factor in achieving a court victory than being technically correct or ethically sound. Therefore, I also believe it is pointless to speculate upon what the courts might decide as a guide for ethical behavior.
The only way to always win in court is to never be sued (or arrested).
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This doesn't prevent their users from being tracked.
Email addresses can be used for tracking by having each request for an address (e.g. each GET of a "contact us" page) return a different email address (e.g. contact43327@example.org). Checking which address gets used allows the GET request (and all associated information) to be associated with the email message (and all associated information).
Likewise, magnet links can be tracked by looking for torrent clients trying to access them. A sibling has pointed out that unique tracker URLs can be used for this. Another way would be to make up a unique content hash for each request, then lurk on the DHT looking for queries for those hashes.
If the operator has no qualms with transferring data (e.g. being directly exposed to copyright infringement) they could even service such requests, with the user being unaware of the fact they're being tracked: the operator alters the hash by making some innocuous "watermark" change to the content, e.g. altering a filename inside an archive; each time a chunk is requested, the operator fetches it from the "original" and passes it on.
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-rela…
Also wrong. The telemetry in Windows 8 was just in critical components that had been instrumented long ago, such as Windows Update, crash management, etc. None of those were using the current universal telemetry system. In fact, I don't know if all of them moved to the new telemetry infrastructure shared with the rest of the OS or if they kept what they had and just added the new telemetry on top. All that said, I ag…
> The telemetry in Windows 8 was just in critical components that had been instrumented long ago, such as Windows Update, crash management, etc. None of those were using the current universal telemetry system.
Are you sure? I did a lot of Windows 8 installations when I was evaluating it, and I distinctly recall the option to turn on the same tracking features that 10 had on by default. In the Windows 8 installer they were presented up front and off by default, in 10 they are hidden and on by default.
As of a month ago this is still the case; I reset a Windows 8 hybrid laptop, going through the standard installation screens, and then upgraded it to 10.
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it is. I've tried it on Facebook several times (since I try to avoid clicking on external links on the platform) and it shows related links the moment I finish the right click and copy link location action. There is some variation depending on where one clicks (on the image that has a link or the actual hyperlink), but Facebook definitely knows in most cases what URLs someone is copying to the clipboard. The fir…
Because the website notorious with spying on every single user action was spying on a user action?
I get annoyed by it too, because sometimes I want to read an article but don't necessarily want fb to continue serving those articles to me. I don't really know what happens inside the Facebook machine, but I imagine clicking a link indicates you are interested in a topic. Sometimes I just want to read trash.
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#338Suggestion: 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.
agree
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
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..
Moving your mouse over the window, despite not interacting with it, will allow the page to track your cursor, and could provide a surprising amount of information. That's why I wrote "over".
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
That protects you (to some extend) from page A accessing resources from page B.
Same origin policy doesn't do anything to stop you from being tracked, though.