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I don’t condone the actions of the Russian government; however: If you want better results from pirate sites, try Yandex.com. Quite good for finding torrents.

by cpach 5y ago

Jerry2 5y ago
>Quite good for finding torrents. That's because there's no DMCA law there and they're not taking down thousands upon thousands of pages like Google is forced to do every day. [1] [1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/ https://www.lumendatabase.org/
- codedokode 5y ago
  Yandex has an agreement with copyright holders and removes sites with pirated content from results. But those are Russian copyright holders and they mostly care about content in Russian. Also Yandex removes sites that are banned in Russia, for example BBC in Russian or Navalny's site.
probably_wrong 5y ago
I used to be able to find MP3s with Google, until one day it simply stopped working. Then I moved to Baidu, which worked for a while. I now use DDG to find movies, and yet looks like the curtain may be closing on that one too. I fear it might only be a matter of time before Yandex stops working too.
- Markoff 5y ago
  there are telegram bots for it though, personally I don't use them but people swear on them btw Baidu is extremely slow due to GFW
  - itsTyrion 5y ago
    true that. I tried to look something up on Baidu once (from Germany) and gave up after it loaded for a full minute
draugadrotten 5y ago
Russian government has always appreciated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat so be careful what you search for.
seanw444 5y ago
I love how we have to preface our approval of something foreign with "now I'm not a Nazi, but...'
- cpach 5y ago
  The obvious reason I used that disclaimer was the fact that Russia’s government decided to invade Ukraine.
Markoff 5y ago
why would you look for torrents in search engine? you will anyway find most of them dead you are much better off with Knaben on EU domain, same results can be achieved with add-ons in qbit, then there are special software not worth my time (Jackett) but I agree I find myself using yandex much more nowadays as alternative
- cpach 5y ago
  Yandex made it possible for me to find extremely rare movies that are not to be found elsewhere. So I have found it very useful.

I don’t condone the actions of the Russian government; however: If you want better results from pirate sites, try Yandex.com. Quite good for finding torrents.

by cpach 5y ago

I don’t condone the actions of the Russian government; however: If you want better results from pirate sites, try Yandex.com. Quite good for finding torrents.

Jerry2 5y ago

>Quite good for finding torrents. That's because there's no DMCA law there and they're not taking down thousands upon thousands of pages like Google is forced to do every day. [1] [1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/ https://www.lumendatabase.org/

codedokode 5y ago
Yandex has an agreement with copyright holders and removes sites with pirated content from results. But those are Russian copyright holders and they mostly care about content in Russian. Also Yandex removes sites that are banned in Russia, for example BBC in Russian or Navalny's site.

probably_wrong 5y ago

I used to be able to find MP3s with Google, until one day it simply stopped working. Then I moved to Baidu, which worked for a while. I now use DDG to find movies, and yet looks like the curtain may be closing on that one too. I fear it might only be a matter of time before Yandex stops working too.

Markoff 5y ago
there are telegram bots for it though, personally I don't use them but people swear on them btw Baidu is extremely slow due to GFW
- itsTyrion 5y ago
  true that. I tried to look something up on Baidu once (from Germany) and gave up after it loaded for a full minute

draugadrotten 5y ago

Russian government has always appreciated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat so be careful what you search for.

seanw444 5y ago

I love how we have to preface our approval of something foreign with "now I'm not a Nazi, but...'

cpach 5y ago
The obvious reason I used that disclaimer was the fact that Russia’s government decided to invade Ukraine.

Markoff 5y ago

why would you look for torrents in search engine? you will anyway find most of them dead you are much better off with Knaben on EU domain, same results can be achieved with add-ons in qbit, then there are special software not worth my time (Jackett) but I agree I find myself using yandex much more nowadays as alternative

cpach 5y ago
Yandex made it possible for me to find extremely rare movies that are not to be found elsewhere. So I have found it very useful.