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If you're sad RARBG closed, give the qbitorrent search a try. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have never used a blocklist, is it supposed to filter out virus and stuff like that? Or does it filter out porn/nsfw?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I have not used anything like this, but according to this post there's this setting:

In the client, Options -> Connection and at bottom: "IP Filtering".

And you can use the ip list that is inside the repo you linked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but qbittorrent uses a different format than transmission, the Blocklist from the repo doesn't work, tried it already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

once you change the extension

If anyone's wondering, the correct extension should be p2p.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No problem! Glad you could make it work :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good find! Will check it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ideally it's supposed to filter possible sources of malware and some people believe it makes them less likely to be caught torrenting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah the effectiveness is questionable, but I don't see any downside other than maybe losing a peer or two

But good article!