There is literally no public torrent tracker out there that has no issues...
Can we stop reposting this ragebait bullshit?
I have seen multiple posts about the situation by now with various claims but no one seems to have actually looked into it so I have questions! Is it true that moderators defended the upload and silenced criticism, is it true that the crypto address in question can be linked to the sites admins and is it true that the same malware is all over the internet in countless releases? Not all of those are from this particular pist but if someone here knows the answers I would be happy to read them!
There is a discord group in the official 1337x subreddit, the user was just a vip user, not a staff/moderator and he deleted comments after posting a malware in order to keep the release alive. Maybe he was trusted before posting it, and 1337x staff are a few people (lately even less) so he wasn't blocked quickly. Nothing more. I hope 1337x will make an announcement. The user who posted malware was under a blue nikname:
There wasn't any member of the staff that was helping the vip user to delete comments. He was just deleting comments under its own post by himself.
Before even worrying about the content of individual torrents people should worry about the sites themselves being full of ads, spyware and other garbage that generates revenue for shady people. There's a reason beyond just privacy that people use rss and magnet links. In an ideal scenario you never go to an actual torrent website.
What's the alternative?
I use torrentgalaxy.to now. Or some search engine like solidtorrents.to, this one's neat since it does not have any ads.
There are few. For most of stuff there's fitgirl and for things that are outdated or not available there (like empress) there's dodi.
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