Do you prefer private or public trackers?

As I get more and more invites to private trackers, I’m finding that I find myself spending more and more time on public tracker websites.

I’ll only use private trackers if I can’t find what I’m looking for on a public tracker. Private tracker rules can get pretty onerous and I prefer to just avoid the whole scene if possible.

If I’m honest, this opinion surprises me. I didn’t expect to prefer public trackers. I always thought that private trackers were so cool and exclusive. I don’t think that way anymore.

littlemisskittn,

Private. Speeds are much better and your stuff lasts longer. I tried several times to have public options for my Coliseum Video uploads and all have failed in some way. At least with private trackers, I know that they’ll stay seeded for a long long time.

WarmApplePieShrek,

Private trackers aren’t dominated by people who waste my bandwidth downloading all day at maximum speed and never contributing back.

prole, (edited )

My private tracker days are behind me after they shut down OiNK, and then later what.cd. Though I can’t say I don’t miss it sometimes. At its peak, What was an amazing place.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

whatever lets me a upload a YouTube video downloaded via newpipe

Gooey0210,

I prefer rutracker 👀

Dumbkid,
@Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Only in two minor private trackers and meh, I liked usenet better don’t have to worry about ratios cause I use the *arrs. The private trackers I had to rack up like 5tb of buffer before I felt comfortable having the *arrs automatically grab from em

caleb,

I really enjoyed the private tracker I used, but I didn’t notice that my prowlarr config got messed up and stopped seeding to ratio and I got banned. Don’t really want to donate to get unbanned so that sucks. Back to public.

athos77,

The newbie blues for each private tracker are a definite thing, but once you get past that it's great. It also depends on which trackers you're on: the general trackers tend to have similar content as publics, but it's the specialty and niche trackers where privates really shine.

Type1,
@Type1@midwest.social avatar

I’ve applied for half-a-dozen private trackers, but they’ve all turned me down. Definitely seems counter to the entire idea of piracy IMO.

TimewornTraveler,

I dunno the difference

skele_tron,

I used to want to get in on some private trackers, esp cult movie related ( karagarga ) but was always put off by elitism of those rules and systems.

Instead i opted to upload to pirate bay and like a trve pirate - no questions asked, download what you will - seeded some very obscure movies that i collected. Had to pull the plug after more than 10 yrs because i was emigrating, was a good time.

SexualPolytope,
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I’m kinda in the same boat, except for a specific private tracker. It’s a local private tracker which has a ton of exclusive stuff in my native language, and most of the users also speak it so there’s a communal aspect to it. But otherwise, yeah. I also tend to prefer public trackers, especially for more mainstream stuff.

PlasmaDistortion,

Public but that’s because I always find what I am looking for and don’t see a need for a a private tracker.

Imprint9816, (edited )

Doesn’t matter, my happiness is solely based on fulfilling my needs. This ends up requiring a mix of private and public trackers.

In this day and age its easy to automate fulfilling whatever obligations a private tracker requires once invited, so they are a relatively small hassle most of the time.

K0W4LSK1, (edited )
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I just recently decided to donate to a certain private tracker and fuck man its so nice. It has so much and its all good. Plus you know the quality will be legit on the highly seeded items. Since i donated it gave me a boost on my ratio, which even with my mediocre connection is fairly easy to keep good

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