Denuvo is the apex of a long history of bad choices.

Maybe actually sell us the games in a way we really own it, without any sort of online activation/account/telemetry/data-gathering like when we could buy a disc and just use it, and it should all be ok.

I feel like a dinosaur every-time I think this nowadays, but what is so problematic with the "own as in physically own" that is so hard to implement? If they want to provide a service, sell a service.

In the past I used pirate versions of games I bought just to be able to play them offline, or because I did not agree with the terms of service. It is so much for our info, it goes beyond just knowing you are the real owner of the software copy: it comes to the point where it looks like it's to guarantee we are not its' owner.

Now some DRMs even destroy gaming performance and its just faster to use 'ked versions. I hope it changes somehow.

Hello Lemmy readers!

After one month gathering information about indexers I created this table and I thought It would be nice to make it a markdown and share it here.

The reason to make it was the inconsistency between multiple sources of information (review sites, reddit, hydra github, etc.) and the reality I found in every site. So this table represents the data I found inside the sites themselves between August and today (09/09/2023).

A further note is that I did not add other German sites because they needed invites that I don't have so I couldn't get any info from them (and they are quite local). I also didn't add a French one because it was trying to web-mine.

As the title says, only sites with APIs able to be added to *ARRs are used for this table (excepting the ones omitted).

If you have any doubt, correction or opinion, just comment!

I hope to keep it updated, (or at least release a new one if too much time passes).

Yeah, this table right now is the most updated thing you will find.

I hope you enjoy!

Also privacy: SSL downloads and only your Usenet provider knows what you download. Most say they don't log.

Thank you so much for doing this and keeping it updated!

Please, with sugar on top: make this a plugin that can be integrated to qbittorrent or rtorrent.

Try to make your idea reach the seedboxes. This would be great for open-tracker seedboxes!

Major change i found to be noted as of May 2023: "client-side NNTP traffic to/from the vipernews.com / uzoreto.com domains are being served by UsenetExpress" So maybe the map is wrong on that backbone's independence.

Ninja Central went paid only, all free accounts have been deleted, even if it was once paid in the past.

New accounts are now 14days trials.

A small thought: I understand that inserting retention on svg is tiresome and so, but maybe a small icon with the letter "C" in a small purple square (or any other format that looks like the current "mb" icon), near the resellers that accepts crypto payment could be a very nice way to graphically visualize this info by just looking at the svg.

Apart this little idea, I already gave my feedback to this update in the last topic. It looks gorgeous, better understandable, and I applaud your work on this!

Thanks for the heads up. Almost missed it!

Anybody knows if Dog only opens during BF and February or there is hope this year before BF?

Thanks for sharing the existence of a Spanish language indexer! I am having a hard time with Spanish content, specially when looking for quality, even for well known Spanish Directors. I often found newseros stuff in some of the indexers I mentioned but that was all, and I know better releases for the same stuff exists, just not inside the indexers I've searched (and I searched in sooo many!) or maybe not inside Usenet. Same for some Belgian content.

usenetHD.li has no API, am I right? If so, every search has to be done inside the site (forum). In the other hand, when leaving automation aside, the place could have a nice forum.

Maybe if you answer their invite tweet you could be lucky, somebody was answered in 2022. (Pidelo hablando castellano, claro). Else, they seem closed for a long long time.

If you manage to get in, let me know! Even if it has no API, I would love to have a source for Iberian and Latin-American content at Usenet, as until now this area was the weak spot of my searches. I wont tweet them because I don't use twitter. For now, lemmy became the last "social" place I still find myself logging in.

Thanks for answering, I'm not trying to circumvent these sites rules, but to actually better understand em.

I get it that they are probably defending themselves from attackers, abusers, or who knows what else. I just fear that needing people's real IP at time of registration (and even accumulating data that links this ip to the future use of the site) can become a big problem in the future, if something bad happens to them. I mean, they can even be forced to handle their users data, some sites have done that already, using it as "bail"/negotiation when pressured (Torrent Freak has some examples).

So I thought that since the problem could be some user causing harm to their sites, maybe having some other static ip address route (not a shared vpn address) could suffice. But I don't know if that's the case.

Thanks for your suggestion, are they ok with that or would it be considered cheating?

Prowlarr will use it's own folder only if you search inside prowlarr, and the downloads are kept there.

If you search and download inside radarr/sonarr, then they will move the download to theirs own root folders. (Considering you have one for each, and another to prowlarr).

Prowlarr's search with its own folder to downloads is a good way to have somewhere where you can manually search what you want and manipulate files outside radarr/sonarr.

Some comments:

• It has some unique content you will not find in both of them, if you are the kind that looks for specific releases.
• The black Friday deal is usually really worth it.
• There is no in-site forum, but instead a discord channel. Their "forum" link sends you to their discord.
• The free account is deleted "after 14 days of inactivity" but it can happen earlier than this.
• Paid activation happen manually, so, if discord receipt is a privacy nightmare for you, hope they read the e-mail.
• Performance is ages ahead of dog.
• Unlike dog, they accept requests for content (via discord) and they really go after it for you, that is really nice.

Overall, it is a mix of both you mentioned, but you will find content there that you will not find on dog and vice-versa. I believe they cover geek well enough. Note that it all depends on what content you are after,

myip.wtf/json (gives nice info too)

You can also use a socks5 server with container:gluetun and run qbt with 127.0.0.1 socks5. (not allowing it to connect to anything but that address in your firewall settings).

By the way you can do this with absolutely any socks5 supporting software (even browsers, ftp clients, etc).

Just set the firewall to allow the software executable to connect only to localhost/127.0.0.1 and you are done.

It's split tunnel under your control.

From what I understood you are trying to get access to international languages media.

Omicron's newzlazer, like easynews search, is useful because it can deobfuscate some stuff that you can't find manually in some indexers, but if you are looking for international content, what will matter for you are what indexers you have access. Here are some options:

• SceneNZBs - specially for content in German.
• Dog - Good (better than usual at least) curated, and sometimes unique, international media source.
• Finder - Better than usual source for international media.
• Su - You probably already notices that, but also good for international languages.
• Ninja - Like dog, has some unique content.
• WtF[nZb] - (not to be confused with the other one with similar name) Good for international releases but very hard to interact with (complicated search and limited API). Easynews' Web Search somehow deobfuscate some of their releases. Some Scandinavian content.
• DrunkenSlug - Also good for internation releases.
• Spotweb (clubnzb, nzbstars) - Good for Dutch content.

Search for "Non-Mainstream Movies Statistics in Usenet Indexers" at german google should find you a analysis comparing availability of hundreds of releases separated in about 30 languages (it is a handmade study, not some crazy prowlarr stats).

Hi, I've sent you a message with more info about the site, and to invite you if you want. (Since now I joined there)

Yes! Now every backbone has it's ntd/dmca icon and pure nl omicron is easier to distinguish. It's really better! Thank you again!

One question: Omicron NL, Base IP and Eweka backbones are all the same AS34343 number. Are they the same backbone?

Another thing that makes me think that is possible: if you use eweka servers as a vpn endpoint, myip.wtf will say the IP belongs to "Eweka Internet Services B.V." while myip .com will say "Base IP B.V." to the same assigned address.

The idea of having the information outside reddit is great. As long as github keeps it there, it even looks nicer to read! Thank you so much for the initiative, OP. We could have it pinned or sidebarlike here somehow? Would be one more nice step forward to drop reddit for good.

Answering myself here to add the experience for GEEK:

Didn't find anything there that wasn't on easynews search, in fact a bit less than there, but I liked a lot the organization. The site is super clean and let us check releases for a single episode or full seasons of shows. It also shows basic information based on tvdb/imdb like director, actors, etc, when looking for a show. Its open and I think it's worth the money for the extra search option and for the site layout.