If you have an adblocker (to prevent cryptocurrency mining, and giant transparent overlays with links taking you to horrible ads) I hear that skytorrents, 1337x, the pirate bay, or eztv are pretty good.

It's interesting that the even the footer of piratebay recommends an adblocker:

>By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker

From the pirate bay :)

Private trackers.

Private trackers are just mostly ran by power-hungry people with basically 0 benefit to the regular person.

Yes, this problem can definitely be seen on some of the trackers, but many old school players have crews that are mature and behave normally. The only proof for this is their long track (10+ years) of successful existence. What the regular person gets from it is the access to the great quality of content in easy way.

I think it varies from tracker to tracker. The "cabal" ones probably match that, but a lot of the smaller niche private trackers have been very welcoming and a great place to get content in my experience. They are still very strict in terms of uploading requirements, but that is to be expected in order to maintain quality.

nobody's forcing anyone to use private trackers. There's a good reason they exist though.

eztv. They do only tv shows.

if you don't want to deal with Torrents, there's NZB (usen... ssshhh!!! first rule!) and Good ole Google (intitle:index.of MKV <video>)

tpb proxy list is pretty good. Ad block is required.