I have some idea on whose torrents to avoid but still if you have a good list please share.
I am a simple man. I check if the fitgirl site i am on is the real one and thats about it.
For rare music files il try any torrent that promises to have what i am looking for. I have yet to actually catch sm malicious.
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Join private trackers and you dont have to worry about this
How? Just because someone has a gate on their house doesn’t mean there aren’t criminals inside
It’s the safer option to be sure, but never feel safe or comfortable while lurkin these here seas or you might get capsized out of the blue!
Many of the top private trackers rely on reputation. Which is why some of them are notoriously hard to get into. They usually also have active mods, admins and forums. They also generally have posting rules for torrents. Anyone wanting to spread malicious torrents would likely get their account banned in short order once it gets reported. not to mention quite a number of them have their own internal release groups that can be trusted.
While it’s not impossible, it’s far less likely to be an issue on any well run private tracker.
Excellent point, any tips or recommendations for finding some?
I’m still new to Lemmy so I’m not sure if there are any communities here for it. On Reddit there is r/trackers which has good info on which private trackers are worth trying to get into. There was also r/OpenSignups which posted which trackers had open signups, but it seems like they’ve shut it down since the protests.
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How do the arrs protect you from untrusted uploaders though? Don’t they just automatically download torrents based on the names and number of seeders?
Video quality is considered along with tags, which I don’t really understand myself. Torrents with the PROPER tag have highest priority, etc. It can get very granular. I never distrusted this system and find it better than going off uploader name.
Sonarr only downloads media according to the the rules you give it. If you don’t give it any rules, it will just grab whatever immediately matches the quality profile (1080p, 2160p, etc)
What you can do is follow the trash-guides. Those will give you an updated list of decent groups, and if you use them with notifiarr/recylarr, the profiles on sonarr/radarr will also auto-update along with changes in the guides
