Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I’m not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I’ve noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won’t be maintained for much longer.
So I’m here asking the seasoned sailors’ thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?
There are rumors that YTS.[whatever they are on now] is a honeypot, and I can confirm during outages I have seen IIS with ASP.NET 500 error pages. If you’re not familiar with web dev, this is the setup a Fortune 500 company would have in 2008, not how a modern server run by random piracy bros on the internet would. It’s clearly corporate bros overpaying a contractor to run the site if it’s on Windows stack, especially in 2025.
I am not a dev and most of that is beyond me. What does that mean to someone who uses their torrents?
Anyone using any torrents needs to get them from a source. That source is probably a web page. Any web page offering free shit may well be a honeypot. Given copyright extortion exists, best to use tor, which as per anyone’s best real knowledge can only be resolved by a few state actors at great cost and over time, which they won’t exert to figure out you visited the pirate bay.