I used to use thepiratebay.org, but recently it seems the quality of the site has degraded.

I sometimes also use 1337xx.to , but that site seems to have a very small selection.

Note that I couldn’t find an answer to this question in the wiki + meathread, so if the answer is already there, please direct my attention to it 🙏🏴‍☠️

    • Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s mostly been fine-ish for anything that can’t be infected with viruses (music, video, roms, etc - usually.) There are way better options today but as long as you’re not going there for software it’s still usable.

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        But why. There are so many good, legit places. Why do you feel you owe them your allegiance. Even despite knowing it’s a scam. This is the weirdest behaviour to me, sorry.

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    1 year ago

    I just have a bunch of search addons for different sites directly in qBittorrent. I haven’t made a website search for a long time.

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        the plugins are already built-in in the standard installation, you just have to enable them before first use and that is it. after that you just use the search box.

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      Just another douche trying to capitalize on misspellings or close enough URLs to shill their ads, or javascript mouse clicks, etc. There are tons of imposter sites for the bigger public trackers.

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        1 year ago

        Ya hopefully that’s all it is and not something malicious…but I wouldn’t trust anything off it.

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          They just want ad clicks. It’s a really basic scam. Duplicate the website. Flood it with javascript mouse clicks and you can get an ad impression for every 3/4 clicks. Multiply that by thousands you can make decent coin.

          That’s all they are really after.

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    1 year ago

    While the suggestions by other commenters to use Qbittorrent’s search functionality combined with add-ons (including one for Jackett integration) is a great way to index public tracker releases, I’d also recommend periodically checking for open signups to TorrentLeech given that some releases are either better seeded there or have higher fidelity video and audio tracks. Some private trackers are even better, but TorrentLeech is among the easiest to join.

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    I’ll add that what I’m currently looking for is “Pimsleur Dutch”, a language learning audio guide.

    Here are the current results in thepiratebay.org

    The top result has only 2 seeders, only contains the first of three chapters, and is very outdated (from 2008).

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    i use the search box in qbittorrent and it works just fine 🤷‍♂️

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    1 year ago

    The other day I found a .torrent file for a movie on aMule. It had +20 seeders.