I searched for ages for a replacement of something like torrentz, and the rarbg drop made me start the search again. I ended up trying the included search in qbittorrent, and I’m very happy with the results, it scans many public trackers, and I have always found what I wanted.
To be clear, qbittorrent is a desktop app for linux/windows/mac, that has a panel where you can search for torrents:
I have never used a blocklist, is it supposed to filter out virus and stuff like that? Or does it filter out porn/nsfw?
No it’s a IP Blocklist, it doesn’t filter out content but tries to blocks peers like law firms and studios who try to take you to court for legal action.
It can’t replace a vpn but it’s no effort at all to use it (in Transmission) so why not
Interesting, I have not used anything like this, but according to this post there’s this setting:
And you can use the ip list that is inside the repo you linked.
Yeah but qbittorrent uses a different format than transmission, the Blocklist from the repo doesn’t work, tried it already.
There’s a file in the repo which is just a list of ips, each in a new line. Is it the same content? Maybe that works?
Checked out the repo and the code to generate the list. “combined_2.txt” is the raw list before it gets gzipped and can be used in qbittorrent (once you change the extension).
So thanks for pointing that out :)
If anyone’s wondering, the correct extension should be
p2p.No problem! Glad you could make it work :)
Good find! Will check it out
Ideally it’s supposed to filter possible sources of malware and some people believe it makes them less likely to be caught torrenting
Yeah the effectiveness is questionable, but I don’t see any downside other than maybe losing a peer or two
But good article!