Don’t bother, none of them are worth it, they require you to always be active and frequent their site, they practically force you to donate or be banned, their torrents are basically identical to what you’d find on all public torrent sites, their giveaways are fake as fuck, you can’t use scripts to automatically grab from the site because they’ll ban you for not actively browsing the site. You’re literally better off paying Netflix and friends than dealing with private trackers.
It depends on the content that you seek for. And with that caveat, your statement may be 100% true or 100% wrong.
I am an avid underground metal music enjoyer and also a RED member, and i could name a dozen of public sources (ranging from soulseek to deathgrindclub or metalarea) that would offer you much better libraries then RED. So i’m using RED like once in two monthes and let my FL tokens expire. But that’s just the one specific use case, people with different musical tastes may find RED much more useful or even the main source for expanding their collection.
So actually if you can get everything you need from public sources, there’s no reason at all to bother with private trackers. And if you can’t, then you have no choice but to accept the rules of the game.
Private trackers have more torrents at better quality than public trackers. MAM has more books in more formats than anyone else. AvistaZ has more Kdramas than anyone else. This is the benefit of private trackers. If I want a book series, I know I can go to MAM and not only find the books individually, but also packaged together as well. I can get them in ebook or audiobook. I can have my choice of narrators, if multiple ones recorded the book.
You say you’ve never needed a private tracker, and that might be true. But what’s also true is that you’ve made do with whatever scraps have been uploaded to public trackers, in whatever quality and format you can find. And you’ve never even had a taste of the choice that comes with a private tracker.
In all my years, I’ve never been forced to donate to a private tracker. Most of them throw ratio at you, because you get it for seeding even if nobody is downloading from you. Shit, on MAM, I actually only have a 0.3 ratio, because everything is seeded so well. But I’ve been given credit for a 23.1 ratio.
If a person feels like they’re being forced to donate, it’s probably because they’re a leecher, and used to being able to just quit torrents whenever they want.
Don’t bother, none of them are worth it, they require you to always be active and frequent their site, they practically force you to donate or be banned, their torrents are basically identical to what you’d find on all public torrent sites, their giveaways are fake as fuck, you can’t use scripts to automatically grab from the site because they’ll ban you for not actively browsing the site. You’re literally better off paying Netflix and friends than dealing with private trackers.
It depends on the content that you seek for. And with that caveat, your statement may be 100% true or 100% wrong.
I am an avid underground metal music enjoyer and also a RED member, and i could name a dozen of public sources (ranging from soulseek to deathgrindclub or metalarea) that would offer you much better libraries then RED. So i’m using RED like once in two monthes and let my FL tokens expire. But that’s just the one specific use case, people with different musical tastes may find RED much more useful or even the main source for expanding their collection.
So actually if you can get everything you need from public sources, there’s no reason at all to bother with private trackers. And if you can’t, then you have no choice but to accept the rules of the game.
Literally none of the private trackers I’m on are like this. And I only use automation for finding, downloading, and managing my torrents.
You’re absolutely full of bullshit on this.
What do you get ton private trackers that you can’t get from public ones? In a life of pirating I’ve literally never needed a private tracker.
Private trackers have more torrents at better quality than public trackers. MAM has more books in more formats than anyone else. AvistaZ has more Kdramas than anyone else. This is the benefit of private trackers. If I want a book series, I know I can go to MAM and not only find the books individually, but also packaged together as well. I can get them in ebook or audiobook. I can have my choice of narrators, if multiple ones recorded the book.
You say you’ve never needed a private tracker, and that might be true. But what’s also true is that you’ve made do with whatever scraps have been uploaded to public trackers, in whatever quality and format you can find. And you’ve never even had a taste of the choice that comes with a private tracker.
If you’re going to be forced to donate to a private tracker, just fucking buy a Usenet subscription instead.
In all my years, I’ve never been forced to donate to a private tracker. Most of them throw ratio at you, because you get it for seeding even if nobody is downloading from you. Shit, on MAM, I actually only have a 0.3 ratio, because everything is seeded so well. But I’ve been given credit for a 23.1 ratio.
If a person feels like they’re being forced to donate, it’s probably because they’re a leecher, and used to being able to just quit torrents whenever they want.