2) as long as you are not looking for exotic stuff you can just use public trackers or semi-private ones (they require an account but usually you do not have to

2) as long as you are not looking for exotic stuff you can just use public trackers or semi-private ones (they require an account but usually you do not have to keep a ratio, do not need an invite and they do not require you to sell your soul to the devil). If you want to go down this route (and you use *arr) prowlarr is a must have to avoid wasting time copying configs between the *arr.