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Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
So, I've tried to get into torrentgalaxy to get some stuff and on the top of the website there's this message:
|NEWSFLASH| Adblock is actively breaking site features again, disable when experiencing any issues.
Trying to find a torrent (Firefox, uBlock origin just updated) leads to results without names and figuring out how to get into the actual page of a given torrent leads to the page without the download torrent/get magnet link links.
I've tested with a browser without adblock and lo an behold, the issues are gone, but the site is obviously unusable.
Am I the only one experiencing this? There's no honor among pirates? Any other alternative?
The best alternative is one that you can self-host and/or isn't centralized.
My favorite option right now is torrents-csv.ml, since it's "a collaborative repository of torrents, consisting of a searchable torrents.csv file."
Basically, the author of the project scrapes the torrent DHT network and compiles a csv of all the torrent magnet links into a CSV file that's searchable on this site. You can selfhost your own private instance of the site by following the instructions on the repository here: https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server
I saw it a bit of time ago.. how safe it is? The access is not centralized, but the data it gets in it is, right? Or it is a service in the same webserver the one that does the scraping?
Will look into it when I got time... always is docker, jeez...