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Some sites broke for me since interacting with those consent banners is a requirement for working (e.g. playing a video). I don’t remember which sites but now I’m back to using ConsentO-Matic, which denies those consent forms if possible.
VPN’s solve this problem completely. This law firm looks at the IP’s of seeders and if they are german they request the personal details from the respective ISP.
If it’s an IP of a (reputable) VPN they don’t achieve anything and if it’s not a german IP they can’t do anything anyway.
They mostly go for the easy targets since that’s their easy business.
Use zram instead of a SWAP partititon. Zram compresses and keeps in RAM. It’s default on Fedora and a few others iirc.
It’s also Germany where torrenting without VPN is not possible. There’s one single law firm that has contracts with most big IP holders. They look up IP’s on public trackers and sent an “Unterlassungserklärung” to the name and adress of the person paying the ISP. ISP’s having to give out names to IP’s without a court order is the problem here.
It’s probably buffer/cache.
Option 3: Vaultwarden + Wireguard.
I don’t have to worry about attacks from the internet. And a single wireguard connection on my phone sometimes doesn’t even appear on the battery stats.
Edit: Browser addons need valid ssl certificates, which I get by dns challenge.
DNS-01 challenge allows for domain ownership verification without open ports and instead looks for a txt record. Using a tool like lego[1] with the respective dns provider’s API automatically creates and deletes the txt record after generating a certificate.
Because ownership is verified by dns txt entry, the (sub-)domain doesn’t have to point to a publicly routable host. This allows for using any IP, so I’m using a local ip only available through wireguard or my local network (E.g. bitwarden.example.com points to 192.168.1.123).
The disadvantage is that the provider has to be supported and you have to store an API key for your domain on the server.
It’s simpler to get onto good indexers for german media on usenet than it is to find a private tracker and get into it.
Also, my upload is slow so I’d have to use a seedbox to torrent on private trackers instead of using my homeserver.
I like P2P filesharing more than usenet since it’s decentralized. Most usenet providers with long retention are owned by only a few parent companies which is never good in the long term. As long as private VPN’s are allowed torrenting can’t be stopped.
On usenet with my indexer I find dual language 1080p remuxes for most movies, so I’d say the quality is as good as it can be. But this is probably also the case with a good private tracker.
If your already on private trackers that have all the media you want I really don’t see any advantage to usenet.
As for tools, it’s mostly the same as with torrenting. The arr* stack supports usenet, it just downloads with sabnzbd instead of qbittorrent (or your preferred client).
