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The pirate bay is just about my favorite torrent site. Kickass torrents used to be good as well. For anything anything anime related, there is still the good ol

The pirate bay is just about my favorite torrent site. Kickass torrents used to be good as well. For anything anything anime related, there is still the good ol https://nyaa.si/ https://nyaa.si/

condensacion 3y ago
Here is another alternative I found https://cloudtorrents.com https://cloudtorrents.com
tiagod 3y ago
TPB sucks now.
- voisin 3y ago
  Why?
  - tiagod 3y ago
    It's pretty much dead. Nobody publishes quality stuff there anymore.
  - SamuelAdams 3y ago
    For a while they used crypto miners on their site. Not sure if it’s still in effect, but it caused me to look elsewhere. https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-bay-used-site-visitors-cpu-to-mine-cryptocurrency-without-asking-permission/ https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-b...
    - lucb1e 3y ago
      Seems a lot less obnoxious than the ads they used to run (don't know what they run nowadays). Bit sad that JS is too limited to be a miner that can't be implemented more efficiently in something like X86 (randomX) or an ASIC (BTC), I imagine it would have caught on otherwise.
      - IshKebab 3y ago
        You could use WASM and WebGPU now so maybe it will make a resurgence.
- uguuo_o 3y ago
  kickass torrents used to be my go to before it got taken down. TPB used to be better, and it has gone downhill for a while.
metadat 3y ago
I downloaded one thing from https://rarbg.to https://rarbg.to 2 weeks ago and got threatening copyright infringement notice emails and a physical letter from my ISP (AT&T fiber). The well is poisoned by cheapshot MPAA/*AA monitoring.
- Akronymus 3y ago
  I feel quite lucky that my ISP doesn't care, as long as you don't start seeding egregiously.
  - uguuo_o 3y ago
    I never download anything without a VPN. I download and seed TBs of data without ever having issues from ISP.
    - nvy 3y ago
      Who's your VPN provider? Aren't they all of dubious trustworthiness?
      - ls612 3y ago
        It’s mostly you use the VPN when doing certain activities so that the copyright notices can go to effectively /dev/null, and otherwise don’t need to use it.
      - uguuo_o 3y ago
        Most are. Mullvad is the one I settled on. I pay via cash through mail, it has worked pretty well for the last few years.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  why are you talking about GNAA? the nazi org? Edit: the OP edited their post . The initially made a joke calling RIAA the “Gay N… Association of America”, a neonazi shock-propaganda org ran by the Stormfront admin and then by an at the time Cloudflare employee. Cloudflare knew about this employee and their self proclaimed naziism but it's obscured behind some veil of jokes or weird definition of what racism really means but that's a whole other topic lol
wahnfrieden 3y ago
the best ones are very private
- SamuelAdams 3y ago
  Agreed, but do you have any tips on getting into them?
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    Know people or kick rocks, tbh. Any I’m in were over a decade ago, or from a previous one that closed, and some are long closed to invites.
  - doublepg23 3y ago
    Lurk on r/trackers . They usually have up-to-date information on trackers who are doing interviews. From there you go to invite forums once you contribute enough.
  - loeg 3y ago
    Used to be there was one that did public "interviews." You could use that to get in there, be a good participant in the ecosystem, and eventually gain access to an internal forum where other sites recruited. The specific site I'm thinking of shut down, but there might still be a process like that; I don't know.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Depends what you mean by best. Back in Bittorrent's first heyday I got into a few but they had ridiculous seeding requirements. Like everyone had to have a seed ratio above 1, which is obviously mathematically impossible (I guess people just faked it). And I think you had to upload new content too which is also a big ask when pretty much everything was already on there. Definitely a "torrenting is my full time hobby" thing not "I want free stuff".
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    Mine had none of those reqs. You found bad ones
RockRobotRock 3y ago
The interface sucks and the ads are horrendous.
- uguuo_o 3y ago
  Interface, yes not great. What are these "ads" people keep talking about? Please if you have an alternative let me know.
  - fsflover 3y ago
    The alternative is I2P. It's slow but anonymous.
  - RockRobotRock 3y ago
    I'm sorry I don't have an alternative. rarbg is very popular but also not very good in my opinion.
KoftaBob 3y ago
Another one I came across recently that's got a great interface: https://bitsearch.to https://bitsearch.to

The pirate bay is just about my favorite torrent site. Kickass torrents used to be good as well. For anything anything anime related, there is still the good ol https://nyaa.si/ https://nyaa.si/

condensacion 3y ago

Here is another alternative I found https://cloudtorrents.com https://cloudtorrents.com

tiagod 3y ago

TPB sucks now.

voisin 3y ago
Why?
- tiagod 3y ago
  It's pretty much dead. Nobody publishes quality stuff there anymore.
- SamuelAdams 3y ago
  For a while they used crypto miners on their site. Not sure if it’s still in effect, but it caused me to look elsewhere. https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-bay-used-site-visitors-cpu-to-mine-cryptocurrency-without-asking-permission/ https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-b...
  - lucb1e 3y ago
    Seems a lot less obnoxious than the ads they used to run (don't know what they run nowadays). Bit sad that JS is too limited to be a miner that can't be implemented more efficiently in something like X86 (randomX) or an ASIC (BTC), I imagine it would have caught on otherwise.
    - IshKebab 3y ago
      You could use WASM and WebGPU now so maybe it will make a resurgence.
uguuo_o 3y ago
kickass torrents used to be my go to before it got taken down. TPB used to be better, and it has gone downhill for a while.

metadat 3y ago

I downloaded one thing from https://rarbg.to https://rarbg.to 2 weeks ago and got threatening copyright infringement notice emails and a physical letter from my ISP (AT&T fiber). The well is poisoned by cheapshot MPAA/*AA monitoring.

Akronymus 3y ago
I feel quite lucky that my ISP doesn't care, as long as you don't start seeding egregiously.
- uguuo_o 3y ago
  I never download anything without a VPN. I download and seed TBs of data without ever having issues from ISP.
  - nvy 3y ago
    Who's your VPN provider? Aren't they all of dubious trustworthiness?
    - ls612 3y ago
      It’s mostly you use the VPN when doing certain activities so that the copyright notices can go to effectively /dev/null, and otherwise don’t need to use it.
    - uguuo_o 3y ago
      Most are. Mullvad is the one I settled on. I pay via cash through mail, it has worked pretty well for the last few years.
wahnfrieden 3y ago
why are you talking about GNAA? the nazi org? Edit: the OP edited their post . The initially made a joke calling RIAA the “Gay N… Association of America”, a neonazi shock-propaganda org ran by the Stormfront admin and then by an at the time Cloudflare employee. Cloudflare knew about this employee and their self proclaimed naziism but it's obscured behind some veil of jokes or weird definition of what racism really means but that's a whole other topic lol

wahnfrieden 3y ago

the best ones are very private

SamuelAdams 3y ago
Agreed, but do you have any tips on getting into them?
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  Know people or kick rocks, tbh. Any I’m in were over a decade ago, or from a previous one that closed, and some are long closed to invites.
- doublepg23 3y ago
  Lurk on r/trackers . They usually have up-to-date information on trackers who are doing interviews. From there you go to invite forums once you contribute enough.
- loeg 3y ago
  Used to be there was one that did public "interviews." You could use that to get in there, be a good participant in the ecosystem, and eventually gain access to an internal forum where other sites recruited. The specific site I'm thinking of shut down, but there might still be a process like that; I don't know.
IshKebab 3y ago
Depends what you mean by best. Back in Bittorrent's first heyday I got into a few but they had ridiculous seeding requirements. Like everyone had to have a seed ratio above 1, which is obviously mathematically impossible (I guess people just faked it). And I think you had to upload new content too which is also a big ask when pretty much everything was already on there. Definitely a "torrenting is my full time hobby" thing not "I want free stuff".
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  Mine had none of those reqs. You found bad ones

RockRobotRock 3y ago

The interface sucks and the ads are horrendous.

uguuo_o 3y ago
Interface, yes not great. What are these "ads" people keep talking about? Please if you have an alternative let me know.
- fsflover 3y ago
  The alternative is I2P. It's slow but anonymous.
- RockRobotRock 3y ago
  I'm sorry I don't have an alternative. rarbg is very popular but also not very good in my opinion.

KoftaBob 3y ago

Another one I came across recently that's got a great interface: https://bitsearch.to https://bitsearch.to