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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title, I haven't Yo ho ho'd in forever in internet time.. What/where do I need to start again? I'm tired of ads and 3+ streaming services to watch stuff that's interesting. Running windows. Thanks dudes and dudettes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's just VPN with extra steps. Why not just set up a SOCKS5/Shadowsocks/wireguard/whatever on any hosting and get a lot better experience?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

In my country I don’t get good upstream internet so I can still have good ratios on torrent sites and the private trackers I use. The prices on the dedicated seed box services can’t be beat for bandwidth and for someone with kids it’s already all set up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

FWIW if you have a seed box which you can ssh into, you can setup a SOCKS5 proxy to route all traffic through the seed box. It'll act like a VPN for you and is the best of both worlds in my opinion. This way your ISP and government can't block your traffic or see that you're accessing trackers at all (even to get the magnet links).

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

OP is new to this so they won't have access to private trackers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure most hosting platforms have egress costs on their cheaper VM instances.

I know Google cloud charges for bandwidth to AUS, and Oracle is 10TB of egress per month before charging (which I think is the most generous of free/cheap hosting platforms).

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

Cause they probably don’t know how to haha 😆