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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by adithyassekhar on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:23AM (#37633940)
1337x and it's mirrors does not have ads. You ended up on some proxy site.
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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by jazz_from_hell on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:32AM (#37634019)
I’m not so sure about that.

According to [0] the domain x1337x·eu should be a real mirror, and it definitely has ads.

[0] https://1337x-to.github.io/domains

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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by 7jjjjjjj on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:46AM (#37634135)
uBlock Origin
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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by tough on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:50AM (#37634172)
real mirrors can become rogue ones?
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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by jazz_from_hell on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:18PM (#37634443)
Yep. And that’s not really a selling point in favour of the convenience of torrents…
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Re:The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old by tough on Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:20PM (#37635716)
I mean torrents are not mirrors,

torrents can be shared with content identifiers, magnet links ,which don't need to be hosted on a server.

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