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by botanical 996 days ago
I just search from in Qbittorrent; I don't ever visit torrent sites directly. Also, why not use an adblocker?
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Interesting! How does that work? i.e. where does Qbittorrent get the results from? Would be cool if that could be done outside of Qbittorrent (for those of us who uses other clients).

I usually browse torrent sites in incognito mode, where uBlock is not active. Perhaps I should just set up a new browser profile for that instead.

PS. OTOH, I’m not really shure why I should trust a site that sends me away to other sites when I click on links. Talk about dark pattern…

I forgot to mention there's also Jackett:

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

Qbittorrent uses plugins to the sites themselves (including to the local Jackett instance via an API):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficia...

And it's what I use to search for torrents.

I would never trust a site without an adblocker and keep uBlock active in Private Mode.

But with all this, you need to know what you're searching for, browsing for content is another story