Happy to help :) I don’t use streaming sites anymore but keep them bookmarked for exactly this purpose.

Doesn’t seem to be any ads (using uBlock Origin).

Movie-web.app?

Only Apple Music, and only because it’s ever so slightly more convenient for me than not paying for it. Plus, I enjoy discovering new music while I’m out on a long walk.

I’d say I’m about 85% private, 15% public. I’m not in any of the top-tier trackers so there are times when I’m looking for something obscure and won’t find it on my few PTs, so off to the publics I go. Last night I found a DVDRip of an 80s show on TPB that I liked better (slightly better color quality) than the single WEBDL on TL. That doesn’t happen often, but it happens.

My favorite tracker is CRT. Cozy, and I love older media.

I’ve already made a comment ITT but I’d like to agree with you here and add on -

The problem with seedboxes is that you’re severely limited on storage space

Not only this, but a lot of seedbox providers either restrict or outright disallow the use of public trackers on their services, both for DMCA-avoidance and also for fair usage policy compliance since slots are often shared (depending on provider & plan). Dedicated servers/slots that can mitigate the latter reason are more expensive and probably out of budget for a lot of torrenters (including myself).

I can see an increasing shift in seedbox usage if more VPNs remove port-forwarding (which I can also see happening - look at how fast IVPN removed it after Mullvad. If you’d allow me a doomer moment, we could be looking at zero good options for VPNs with port forwarding by the end of the year or next). What I can’t predict is how badly or how quickly losing these options will actually affect public tracker usage/torrent availability. I’m not sure if there are any numbers out there estimating how many people utilize VPNs and port forwarding with public torrents versus those who do not.

Regardless, these VPN changes aren’t good news for us… between this and RARBG going down, it’s been a disappointing last few months. I have found my home in a few private trackers and am focusing my efforts there to upload content that I care about, but that content will not reach the masses like the public torrents I soon may not be able to seed efficiently can.

I hoped this wouldn’t happen but saw it coming from a mile away, honestly. I think, as OP said in another comment, we’re going to see the rest of the better VPNs (an already short list - what is it now, just AirVPN and maybe Proton?) slowly take away this feature as well.

My Mullvad subscription runs out in a few days. Think I’ll be using the extra monthly $5 to upgrade my seedbox plan and ditch home seeding entirely.

There’s also one at [email protected] but it, along with the few others I’ve seen, are all basically dead. I also miss r/trackers. :(

Torrenting with a seedbox for me. I’m aware of Sonarr/Radarr and other automation tools but I don’t feel like I have the need for them. Some part of me enjoys the manual search and management. Never touched Usenet though it’s in the mental “maybe try later” bin.

You don’t actually need to log in to download anything. Scroll down on the torrent page to where it says Info Hash. Copy and paste that string of characters into your torrent client where magnet links go and it functions just like a magnet.

Seedbox user here, can confirm, lol.