Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Kribensis @lemm.ee 8 mo. ago

Since when did 1337x start doing this crap?

Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed I can't download any torrents or magnet links on 1337x without clicking Download without VPN.

At first, I wasn't even seeing the bottom half of that popup since uBlock was blocking it. When I added a custom rule to block the popup, that totally broke the download buttons, so I had to disable uBlock.

Is anyone else noticing this? I'm not going to disable my adblocker on freaking 1337x, I'll just stop going to 1337x 😆

Unless that's some error, what were they thinking?

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ALWAYS, use an adblocker when you are on the high seas.
- Oh no the adblocker makes it worse here actually. It just blocks the buttons but the popup still appears and has no x button to close it.
  
  This was an an insanely garbage attempt from 1337x to push their own VPN harder.
  
  I have never seen this pop up with UBO
- lol, the most upvotes goes to this shitpost that didn't even read my OP. Never change.
Hey just a heads up but I personally am a big fan of using QBtorrent as it has an internal search function that lets you search all kinds of sites and get the magnet links without even ever opening the website and if you want to you can right click and have it open the webpage anyways to double check the torrent.

Also I was able to add Nyaa as a search option so searching for anime has been a lot easier.

I had to help someone with this website crap just earlier today and will keep recommending using QBtorrent because of this.
- Excuse my ignorance but I can't find the search function in qB that you're talking about. Assuming I have downloaded the most recent version of qB, where would I find it?
  
  Ignorance is totally fine and it's insane they don't make it easier to find since it's so helpful.
  
  So it's actually enabled via the "View" drop down menu.
  Will actually be the option that says "Search Engine"
  
  And from there you should just see a little tab appear at the top underneath the quick action buttons called search with a magnifying glass.
  
  Bottom right of the screen has the abilities to add more search sites via plugins and are really easy to import directly from URL and I like to keep my search just to enabled sites because some of them are in foreign languages.
  
  Let me know if you need more help.
- Nice call-out, been using qBittorrent for a long while but never looked for an internal search! Did it take any extra work to get Nyaa functional? I'll get myself situated after work today
  
  Yeah it's hidden but not. Super weird because it's so darn good at it's job.
  
  It's under the "View" drop down menu as "Search Engine" and it literally just adds a tab to let you search and import torrents right in the software.
  
  Nyaa I think I needed to add it as a plugin but there is actually a super convenient little button on the bottom right of the search tab called "Search Plugins" which has a link to all of them and then you just install it via the URL copy and pasted into the box.
  
  Takes like maybe 2-3 minutes if you know where all the buttons are so maybe assume 15 just for the shock value of never knowing this existed and figuring out the button placement but very low effort.
  
  Let me know if you need help finding the buttons or anything.
  
  Look into installing jackett too and then use the jackett plugin with the qbit search, better than stock qbit search plugins.
- It was hit or miss since 1337x started showing CF captcha thingie.
- To add onto this, jdownloader has that feature too. It's a download manager, so no torrents, but you can plug a link and it will crawl for downloadable files. Also, if your Internet is spotty, it autocontinues downloads that fail. It's easily the most useful tool on my PC.
My secret tip: go to inspect element, search the box that has the link and copy the embedded link. You are welcome ;)

Edit: Also do all of that from tor. Once you got the link you can go back to your torrent client.
- Haha. I didn't think of that! It totally works, but is pretty irritating to use daily.
  
  Another poster knew the right filter to add to UBO, so I went with that.
I started getting this a few months ago and just switched to other sites instead. Wasn't worth the hassle as I browse from my phone (vnc'd into a VM)
Post the home page link you are using to access 1337x so we can confirm either way whether this is legit.
- Tell you what, I'll actually dip my nuts in your mouth instead, since I'm under no requirement to post anything for your review when I am the one doing the troubleshooting. That work?
  
  Steady on, you post here and then get annoyed when someone offers troubleshooting help?
Cause you're using the wrong 1337

That is a fake
- Is 1337x.to not the real one? I've seen it on there too
  
  Yes that's the real one.
  
  I'm betting all this new junk has something to do with their site getting DDOSed a couple of months ago.
Can really recommend Jacket.

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
- The cool kids are using Prowlarr these days
  
  God sometimes I wish I knew what that was or cared enough to go through the effort of installing it but I am so content with slow installing and also it's nicer on my limited storage.
  
  Prowlarr is good because it combines usenet indexers and torrents. Makes it very easy to search for anything and compare versions/sources.
Got the same thing. Correct site. What is happening???
I use .to and its been doing the same thing, I just pres ESC key then click it again, and do that a couple times, also for a while I had to right click the magnet button and open in new tab, but that methods not working rn

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