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

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Post by Freak_NL »

sergiotapia wrote: post #87
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growing up I heard horror stories of people pirating versions of Windows, Office, etc that had backdoors installed. If you download pirated software there isn't a real way to know for 100% certainty that it isn't laced with something . So I avoid it like the plague. Even if the majority don't have anything it only takes the one and then, depending on its level of sophistication, you're screwed.

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.

> 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.

What is the legality of that? The IT-guy is probably violating his corporation's license with Microsoft, but does that affect you as buyer? I suspect that you may run afoul of anti-fencing laws in a lot of jurisdictions (where buying goods you can reasonably suspect are fenced is illegal as well).

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

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Post by coldtea »

mnsc wrote: post #127
darawk wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Selecting and copying are both definitely trackable.

Is "right click and copy url" trackable as well? Genuine question.

Maybe not in itself, but "user mouse pointer is above the url" and "user right clicked" are.

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

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Post by leonix »

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.

Indexing individual files is surely a great feature. Voting for it, too.

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

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Post by intoverflow2 »

thinkloop wrote: post #94
sergiotapia wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which subs, how do you look for that?

Don't bother with the subs just buy one off ebay for $5 instead it's the same thing and the subs are just as shady but charge more.

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

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Post by intoverflow2 »

slg wrote: post #72
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Growing up I heard horror stories of people pirating versions of Windows, Office, etc that had backdoors installed. If you download pirated software there isn't a real way to know for 100% certainty that it isn't laced with something . So I avoid it like the plague. Even if the majority don't have anything it only takes the one and then, depending on its level of sophistication, you're screwed.

My favorite was all the pirated copies of Windows 10 that were floating around that supposedly had the telemetry features removed. It always confused me who exactly those were targeting.

The same kids who believe "Turn off your virus checker when running the crack because it shows up as a false positive"

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

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Post by hkjgkjy »

kasumis_ wrote: post #19
jzelinskie wrote: post #16

Thank you for working on this project. What is your indexing strategy? Similar search engines have a warning that you should use a VPN when downloading that I think would benefit users.

We have written up a DHT crawler to locate trackers.We are not dependant on trackers. We are also testing an AI based detector which filters out FAKE torrents (it is not currently deployed, but we test it). If 2 more users here demand a VPN warning, it will be deployed.

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 :).

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

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Post by newscracker »

mnsc wrote: post #127
darawk wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Selecting and copying are both definitely trackable.

Is "right click and copy url" trackable as well? Genuine question.

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 first time I saw it I was very annoyed.

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

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Post by kasumis_ »

hkjgkjy wrote: post #136
kasumis_ wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have written up a DHT crawler to locate trackers.We are not dependant on trackers. We are also testing an AI based detector which filters out FAKE torrents (it is not currently deployed, but we test it). If 2 more users here demand a VPN warning, it will be deployed.

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.
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