I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

Also even reccomended torrent search engine websites suck and only crawls through some websites is there any you would rec

Stop using these sources and learn how to use qBittorrent with Jackett. You can search hundreds of trackers all ata once in seconds. You won’t miss anything unless it’s literally just not available anywhere.

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn’t try that.

I feel like it has more to do with the technological advances than being more prone to conflict

Yup. Reality. No point using a hyper secure chat system if literally nobody you know is using it.

American internet prices are wild.

The more on Lemmy the better, across the board. But convincing them to actually do so seems unlikely unfortunately.

Exist? yes.

Do they work? I have no idea. I’ve never seen anyone use them in like 15+ years.

My most upvoted post of all time is about this very issue https://sh.itjust.works/post/2882678

I migrated away from lemmy.world as a result

I did just yesterday, through Prolific. Got paid for it too.

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