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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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hey, just a thought, but at some point if this gets too popular you will probably get a message from the UK TV company SKY who wont be super happy about your name.

Or the favicon that looks like it was lifted straight from on old version of their website.

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

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post #40

Suggestion: 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.

> just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button That would make it impossible to copy the magnet link from the search results page, which I believe is a really nice usability perk. For users that are less technically inclined, clickable links could be crucial (even if it gives you the theoretical possibility to track the click). I guess it depends on if you are prepared to be a search engine only fo…

Clickable magnet links are fine, since the query doesn't actually go to the server.

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

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post #70
post #68

Uh, could purely be a coincidence but the favicon looks identical to the logo of UK TV corporation Sky (albeit with less colour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sky_plc_logo.png

Are you really complaining that a site that is dedicated to copyright infringement might be misusing a trademark? I have a feeling that is the least of their legal concerns.

Trademark law is pretty fierce, and sites like these should generally want to minimise the legal attack surface.

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

#187

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…

Archived bundles of files having significant names are important! Torrents of opaque disk images and archives (e.g. pirated software) or video files (e.g. pirated movies and TV series episodes) might be popular, but the strong suit of BitTorrent are carefully crafted and often very large collections of books, music, emulator ROM files etc.

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

#190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?

It appears to be using Caddy at least https://caddyserver.com/
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