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by tropicalfruit 205 days ago
torrent
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BiteCode_dev 205 days ago
It did, just not the usual people. If you go to yandex, you can see that the russian mafia makes good money with trackers.

I love torrent, but it's legal used are cripple by corporate infra, so it's mostly florishing thanks to illegal stuff paid by shady ads.

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oytis 205 days ago
> If you go to yandex, you can see that the russian mafia makes good money with trackers

What's the business model though? Most Russian torrents are about giving away copyrighted stuff for free.

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WesolyKubeczek 205 days ago
Have you ever seen what kind of ads they run?
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oytis 205 days ago
So their business model is good old conextual ads? That's pretty innocuous by modern standards.

UPD: I've checked what ads it shows me on Rutracker - it's VPN services and online gambling. Youtube and Facebook have shown me worse

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WesolyKubeczek 205 days ago
Online gambling, most of which is about good ol’ money laundering, and thepiratebay seems to not censor their ads at all, so you may get all kinds of scams and malware spread via ads.
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whstl 205 days ago
I get finance scam ads all day on Instagram and Youtube, so it seems like a wash to me.

If anything I have more sympathy for that mafia.

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BeFlatXIII 205 days ago
No. Too many ad blockers.
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