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 🙏🏴‍☠️

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    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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    1337x.to not xx.to

    I have no idea who xx.to is… it’s not on the list of alternate domains so I’m a bit leery of that one.

    Although I’m not finding dutch there, bt4gprx.com has it but I’d be cautious with some of those.

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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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        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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      It’s actually decent for finding really old, less popular movies/tv.

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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.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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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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    I like to use rutracker.org. The tracker is public but the search is behind a registration form. Based on my experience it has some content I was unable to find on English trackers. Additionally, InsaneZemRes (a no compression repacker, good if internet speed/bandwidth aren’t of a concern) uploads new releases to there instantly, so very comfortable if I’m looking for a game that came out recently.

    In case I can’t find what I’m looking for on rutracker, torrentgalaxy.to is a good alternative. They have a lot of the RARBG torrents and I think that’s where most ex-RARBG users migrated.

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      Apart from private trackers, rutracker seems to be the best for lossless movies in 1080p. Big selection of blueray remuxes/rips which are often missing from the other public indexers, likely because causal users prefer 2gb files to >20gb.

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    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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        you don’t say? the point is

        1. you don’t have to search them manually
        2. it is default set contained in the fresh qb installation. their names are irrelevant
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          I thought a fresh install was blank, and you had to manually add plugins for each search provider that you chose to use.

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            you have to enable them before first use, but they are already there. you don’t need to bring in your own list of what you want to install (unless you want to expand on the default list).

            maybe this can vary in time or between platforms or something, i am not quite sure about that, but this is how my ubuntu installation behaved.

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              I know when I set it up I had to add them manually, but that was years ago. Maybe this is a new thing, or maybe your specific Ubuntu instillation was a custom fork of QB that included a bunch from the start.

              (I really think it’s unlikely that base QB would include them, since it would make it more obvious that they intend it to be used for piracy - something they’d want to avoid for legal reasons. Yeah, I know, but I’d rather they not get shut down.)

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                i have been using qb for a long time and i don’t remember ever having to manually add them. i have also been using it on a windows machine, directly downloaded from qb website. it is definitely not some ubuntu customization.

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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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      In general, I recommend adding Jackett to qbittorrent. It works great and is much better than the standard search add-ons.

      For this specific request, AudioBook Bay has a 30 lesson Dutch section (in a large general pack) and is dated 2022 (also available via Jackett in qbittorrent).

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