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Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yandex is currently the best search engine for pirate stuff. You might need to change the language setting to only show english results, tho, as it gives preference to russian stuff.

If you're on Windows, you can block any address "forever" by running Notepad as an admin and opening the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically "fail" to find the page. For instance, 0.0.0.0 www.whatever.com will completely block that domain. It won't block www.whatever.co.uk or whatever.com, so you'll have to add one line for each top level domain. It's great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another pro tip: just use an ad blocker, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is functionally what PIHole does. Though you can do this with any DNS you control, such as Unbound or Bind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why Yandex over other search engines?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yandex is good. Sometimes Qwant.com and Metager.org will find things, too. When Google/Bing/Yahoo/Startpage, etc., don't find what you're looking for, just try search engines based in other countries. Russia/Yandex probably cares less about western DRM than Qwant/France and Metager/Germany. Incidentally, if you open a VK (aka Vkontakte, Russian Facebook) account, you can also open a mail.ru (part of VK) account. Don't forget to set the UI language to something you understand :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia has long been a haven for digital piracy and Yandex doesn't block pirate results at all. When I noticed that duckduckgo began quietly censoring some pirate sites I frequented, I ditched it for those purposes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup ororo is a cheap streaming service masquerading as an English teaching tool to avoid regulations. Totally legal in Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically “fail” to find the page. For instance, 0.0.0.0 www.whatever.com will completely block that domain. It won’t block www.whatever.co.uk or whatever.com, so you’ll have to add one line for each top level domain. It’s great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page) 11

Pi-hole is worth looking into if you're into this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pihole is a good option, but it's extra hardware that you need to keep running. Changing your own OS's etc/hosts doesn't need anything you might not have ;)