Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by disiplus on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:51AM (#13424805)

with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster.

but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:06AM (#13424863)

Let's be grateful for what we have now.

The cycle is usually completed by another free service starting and being usable for the next few years, and in this case there's no pain in switching (no content you uploaded and spread URLs to), so I wouldn't worry.

On the other hand, in the age of HTML "hello world" including an Angular installation, downloading Bootstrap from external CDN, and at least three different kind of tracking scripts, I think sites like this one need to be praised loudly.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by Fnoord on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:34AM (#13424952)

I never see any banners on Imgur. I block banners.

What Extratorrents and The Pirate Bay do tho seems to be something akin to clickjacking. I click on a link to a torrent search result (or a download link), a tab opens, and it immediately closes. Rest assured this generates them money.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by ErikDub on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:19AM (#13425582)

That is your adblocker closing the popup as soon as it opens. For users without an adblocker the tab stays open.

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