Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.
Personally, I haven’t visited a public torrent site in years because qBittorrent has search plugins, so things mostly go through the sites’ APIs.
With Jackett, I don’t even really have to check the site for the private tracker I use; the only reason I visit now is to see what’s new and popular in case it seems interesting.
How does one even get to add search plugins on Qbittorrent? And how do you make sure they’re any good i.e you only visit the good ones?
First, you have to enable them; there should be a checkbox in the settings. I think you need to restart qB after this.
Then, in the bottom right corner of the main window, hit the “Search Plugins” button and then select the update button. That will auto-populate with some of the more well-known ones.
If you need a specific site, check out this repo.
Jackett aint a plugin.