I used to use thepiratebay.org, but recently it seems the quality of the site has degraded.

I sometimes also use 1337xx.to , but that site seems to have a very small selection.

Note that I couldn’t find an answer to this question in the wiki + meathread, so if the answer is already there, please direct my attention to it 🙏🏴‍☠️

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I just have a bunch of search addons for different sites directly in qBittorrent. I haven’t made a website search for a long time.

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How does this work?

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the plugins are already built-in in the standard installation, you just have to enable them before first use and that is it. after that you just use the search box.

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Sometimes you have to open the plugin thing on the search tab and click “update” to get them to appear

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1337x.to not xx.to

I have no idea who xx.to is… it’s not on the list of alternate domains so I’m a bit leery of that one.

Although I’m not finding dutch there, bt4gprx.com has it but I’d be cautious with some of those.

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Just another douche trying to capitalize on misspellings or close enough URLs to shill their ads, or javascript mouse clicks, etc. There are tons of imposter sites for the bigger public trackers.

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Ya hopefully that’s all it is and not something malicious…but I wouldn’t trust anything off it.

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They just want ad clicks. It’s a really basic scam. Duplicate the website. Flood it with javascript mouse clicks and you can get an ad impression for every 3/4 clicks. Multiply that by thousands you can make decent coin.

That’s all they are really after.

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I used to use thepiratebay.org, but recently it seems the quality of the site has degraded.

Recently??? 😏

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It’s actually decent for finding really old, less popular movies/tv.

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How often do you find torrents with active seeds?

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On piratebay? Never!

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I use streamio which searches it but ngl I’d say like 50% of the time the top seeder is from pirate bay

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It’s mostly been fine-ish for anything that can’t be infected with viruses (music, video, roms, etc - usually.) There are way better options today but as long as you’re not going there for software it’s still usable.

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But why. There are so many good, legit places. Why do you feel you owe them your allegiance. Even despite knowing it’s a scam. This is the weirdest behaviour to me, sorry.

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I like to use rutracker.org. The tracker is public but the search is behind a registration form. Based on my experience it has some content I was unable to find on English trackers. Additionally, InsaneZemRes (a no compression repacker, good if internet speed/bandwidth aren’t of a concern) uploads new releases to there instantly, so very comfortable if I’m looking for a game that came out recently.

In case I can’t find what I’m looking for on rutracker, torrentgalaxy.to is a good alternative. They have a lot of the RARBG torrents and I think that’s where most ex-RARBG users migrated.

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Rutracker is great for CAD and other engineering software.

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Apart from private trackers, rutracker seems to be the best for lossless movies in 1080p. Big selection of blueray remuxes/rips which are often missing from the other public indexers, likely because causal users prefer 2gb files to >20gb.

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While the suggestions by other commenters to use Qbittorrent’s search functionality combined with add-ons (including one for Jackett integration) is a great way to index public tracker releases, I’d also recommend periodically checking for open signups to TorrentLeech given that some releases are either better seeded there or have higher fidelity video and audio tracks. Some private trackers are even better, but TorrentLeech is among the easiest to join.

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Better, follow /r/trackersignups. There are more trackers than just TorrentLeech.

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