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.

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

none of them are worth it

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.

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