just read this.

yep, especially if you download from trusted sources on the megathread or fmhy.

not worth it, you have to wait for ages to get the book you want. (although at that point, you may as well dedrm the book and keep it. no need to pirate)

just skimmed through that link and it seems like it’s for self hosting gitlab ? is there an instance on i2p so I don’t have to self host (I don’t want to) ?

but the difference between DDG and startpage is that DDG allows connections through Tor and VPN, while startpage doesn’t. isn’t it suspicious ?

Proton doesn’t allow torrenting

you do realise gpt 3.5 turbo is still just chatgpt right ?

then you’re using fake ones, look here for legit ones, I personally use https://leechall.com/ a lot, never had any issue with it. these are the only legit ones afaik, all others are fake

I’m pretty sure the bots on DDG don’t have internet access, just try asking a question about anything that happened very recently (e.g. last week) and they won’t be able to answer.

they could’ve made it optional, then if someone wanted to, they could opt in. there are also open source models like llama and mistral which they can run on their own hardware. but that would probably be too expensive for DDG

wasn’t it bought by an advertising company?

but they claim to not to save the chat and that it won’t be used for training

for me, I had to constantly keep whitelisting stuff because of Goodbye Ads

this was the perfect opportunity to integrate it with search like bard and ms copilot… but no, they will just offer them just like that, with hallucinations and all. claude 1.2 instant and gpt 3.5 turbo are not even that good

I would just remove Goodbye Ads… it has too many false positives, not worth it. OISD + 1hosts lite is all you need (and language specific filters if you visit those websites)

for torrenting, you only really need a VPN and a torrent client, as for precaution, I guess just bind qbittorrent with VPN. and for sites to find torrents, there’s plenty on the megathread or fmhy, tell him to use an adblocker like uBlock Origin

couldn’t he use ngrok ?

if you search “Free VPN” on playstore, turboVPN is ranked higher than proton

Edit: and I see its reviews are also negative, probably because of the connection issues (I’ve been having the issue too, takes a long time to connect if it even does

have you tried sequential download ? I don’t know if it works for audio but it works for video so maybe…

personally I think revolt is a better alternative.