Join private trackers and you dont have to worry about this
How? Just because someone has a gate on their house doesn’t mean there aren’t criminals inside
It’s the safer option to be sure, but never feel safe or comfortable while lurkin these here seas or you might get capsized out of the blue!
Many of the top private trackers rely on reputation. Which is why some of them are notoriously hard to get into. They usually also have active mods, admins and forums. They also generally have posting rules for torrents. Anyone wanting to spread malicious torrents would likely get their account banned in short order once it gets reported. not to mention quite a number of them have their own internal release groups that can be trusted.
While it's not impossible, it's far less likely to be an issue on any well run private tracker.
Excellent point, any tips or recommendations for finding some?
I'm still new to Lemmy so I'm not sure if there are any communities here for it. On Reddit there is r/trackers which has good info on which private trackers are worth trying to get into. There was also r/OpenSignups which posted which trackers had open signups, but it seems like they've shut it down since the protests.
For the most parts, movies and tv shows is generally safe. It's really difficult to do anything from a media file (.mkv/.mp4) and as long as the torrent doesn't contain any other weird files you're fine.
It's with software and games that you really need to be careful. For software, I would recommend m0nkrus releases from rutracker.org . Google translate the comments on any release and you will see whether any release is suspicious.
Games on the other hand is very hard. There are a bunch of really popular sites that will include some sort of crypto software and other questionable stuff along with their games (igg-games comes to mind). The only public space I trust to get games from is fitgirl-repack.site (this domain is the only official one). Other than that, I only trust GazelleGames but you have to find a way into that and I'm not gonna say it's hard but its definitely a bit of effort to join.
Great info! Thanks for sharin :)
Im abstaining from anything to do with Russia however given their current disposition against the majority of the globe and their efforts with WiperWare
I am a simple man. I check if the fitgirl site i am on is the real one and thats about it.
For rare music files il try any torrent that promises to have what i am looking for. I have yet to actually catch sm malicious.
For games, I mostly use ova and for music, I just use a Spotify downloader or yt-dlp. For movies I do what you do lol.
On topic, can someone clarify if/why IGG is bad?
They seem to have quite the following and popular on 1337x. Not a joke/troll, genuinely curious.
From the old Megathread: "These are not recommended on this subreddit as trusted sites for various reasons, but the main reasons why igg-games is not recommended is due to their history of shady behavior"
IGG has been known to include all kinds of weird shit with their installers
They have put miners, keyloggers and bunch of weird shit in their installations in the past, if what I have heard is to be believed. Also them spamming multiple links of the same shit seems sketchy a.f.
Debrid
Will get real- debrid soon.
That's what I'm using. Works really well with Kodi + plugins or Stremio
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