As the title suggests, do you guys have any recommended websites to get movies safely?

  • Pezzer3D@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    Grab yourself a VPN and always use that while you’re sailing the high seas. For movies I just use the search function in qBittorrent.

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      2 years ago

      I’ve been using qBittorrent for a few years but never used the search function because uTorrent’s never showed the right results for me. I will give it another try next time

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        Worth giving it a try! I used to just try and search for magnet links or torrent downloads on websites like rarbg but using the search function has really streamlined the process for me.

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      2 years ago

      a vpn is probably not great, a cheap VPS in linode (because it has one click wireguard vpses) is probably better and wont get caught on captchas / anti spam filters

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        Captchas aside, with a VPN your traffic is mixed with others, making it much harder to trace back to you (assuming the VPN provider has a no-log policy and can be trusted). With Linode, isn’t that not the case since you’re setting up a VPS for just yourself, and therefore a greater risk?

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          yeah but for piracy it is adequate. for illegal shit you should 1. not be using your own net, 2. using anything but TOR or the other one

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          A VPN aggregates many users’ traffic under one ip, like what your home router does for all your devices. This is irritating, because other users doing shady stuff gets the ip flagged and then you get captchas and can’t log into etsy and you bank and all that. A vps gets its own ip, so if you tunnel your traffic through it, you’re not sharing the ip. So the ip doesn’t get blacklisted and those hassles disappear. But it’s also not as anonymous, because your traffic isn’t bundled with any other traffic. VPS providers generally require some information, or at least payment, which can tie your identity to the ip. Then there are logs. You can log to null, if you set it up right, but the vps provider probably also keeps logs, so that’s a negative compared with a VPN.

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            You’re also more likely to be limited on traffic or pay-per-traffic on VPSs though.

            And if not, they might blacklist you for heavy usage anyway.

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          i think level1techs on yt covered it. it is basically a rented computer you can have for yourself. more importantly the traffic that goes through it is only your own so no captchas