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Hello fellow Librarians! I developed a good technique to browse torrents more securely as well as retrieve the magnet link for your desired file. I use Ubuntu and install it with my home folder encrypted to make it near impossible to hack. I also use transmission for its ease of use and the fact that it is open source makes it more trustworthy. I like using TOR to stifle any man in the middle attacks and to obscure your personal data over the internet for much better privacy and security.
###### Using TOR browser you will notice that the magnet links do not work when you click on them. This is an inherent security feature in TOR, but you can still activate the link. Here is how:
Step 1. Right click on desired magnet link and select open in a new tab.
Step 2. Copy the entire address bar. (This is the actual link to the torrent)
Step 3. In Transmission or other software click file, then select add URL. This will add the magnet link to the program and it will begin to search for meta data right away as it should.
Thanks guys and good torrent hunting! -MegaohmZ-
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You can right click on the magnet icon and select:
Copy link location
This puts the complete magnet link data in the clipboard and just hit the link icon in like qbittorent or uttorent and when the full magnet link details pops up just say ok. You can do this across systems if the clip board is shared.
Be sure and click on the 'S' (Script Safe) icon next to the onion icon to shut off scripts.
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Yeah Tor works nicely to grab torrents. Sadly it seems unusable to upload stuff: I tried to create an account several times from the .onion URL, within minutes my account was banned. No point in providing an .onion URL if they're going to make people's life miserable on it...
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Aug 24, 2017, 20:35 pm
(This post was last modified: Aug 24, 2017, 20:42 pm by Megaohmz. Edited 1 time in total.)
(Aug 17, 2017, 14:31 pm)hypno-potamous Wrote: You can right click on the magnet icon and select:
Copy link location
This puts the complete magnet link data in the clipboard and just hit the link icon in like qbittorent or uttorent and when the full magnet link details pops up just say ok. You can do this across systems if the clip board is shared.
Be sure and click on the 'S' (Script Safe) icon next to the onion icon to shut off scripts.
Cool Thanks. Even faster now!
(Aug 21, 2017, 09:17 am)vmwareIsGreat3 Wrote: Yeah Tor works nicely to grab torrents. Sadly it seems unusable to upload stuff: I tried to create an account several times from the .onion URL, within minutes my account was banned. No point in providing an .onion URL if they're going to make people's life miserable on it...
Yea I would stay away from .onion URL. It is not necessary IMO. This method is the next best thing to a VPN, as long as you REQUIRE Encryption in your torrent client. As far as Copywrite Trolls, It would be a good opportunity for me to teach a jury how to legally download content using the Fair Use Act as law in the courtroom! You have to represent yourself in court to be able to talk to a jury btw.
(Aug 17, 2017, 14:31 pm)hypno-potamous Wrote: You can right click on the magnet icon and select:
Copy link location
This puts the complete magnet link data in the clipboard and just hit the link icon in like qbittorent or uttorent and when the full magnet link details pops up just say ok. You can do this across systems if the clip board is shared.
Be sure and click on the 'S' (Script Safe) icon next to the onion icon to shut off scripts.
Awesome thanks!
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Most torrent clients accept the info hash too to add a torrent. You may find that a little bit easier to do.
The info hash is the 48 character hex string that looks like this "E4645BCE32B2EAFEDE6B0ABEA1A4306DD0475E01" (From this torrent)
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BUT what I want to do is have 'magnet' one of the options in the 'applications' list; the intent is to click on the magnet and have it download the link to a script which does some processing on the link and ships the result to another machine for downloading via CLI. Copy+pasting the link can be done by hand, but for various reasons I need it to be done automatically. I've tried copying over the relevant line in a working firefox prefs.js file, but no joy.
It's been so long since I tweaked around with the firefox applications that I've forgotten what's involved in creating a new one.
Help!
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If you are of the experience level that your post suggests, then you should be aware that you can use tor as a stand alone proxy and skip the browser part all together.
Such a conversation is beyond the scope of this thread, so feel free to start a new one if you wish to explore that route.
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Thx for this.. went crazy for a couple hours yesterday uninstalling/reinstalling my torrent client..  before finally discovered this solution 
I've recently begun experimenting with visiting via the TOR site.. (as the regular site is down more frequently lately) - thanks to this thread I am up to speed on how to kickoff the DL's.. Unfortunately, I am still somewhat unclear as to why the TOR (Firefox) browser is indicating a non-secure connection to the TOR version of the site?? I've also tried adding the "HTTPS EVERWHERE" plugin to the TOR browser.. the connection is still listed as "unsecure"..?
Maybe it doesn't matter.. as the onion process is supposed to be "anonymizing" anyway.. still, I'd prefer it be explicitly secure.
Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated!
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(Aug 16, 2017, 21:30 pm)Megaohmz Wrote: Hello fellow Librarians! I developed a good technique to browse torrents more securely as well as retrieve the magnet link for your desired file. I use Ubuntu and install it with my home folder encrypted to make it near impossible to hack. I also use transmission for its ease of use and the fact that it is open source makes it more trustworthy. I like using TOR to stifle any man in the middle attacks and to obscure your personal data over the internet for much better privacy and security.
###### Using TOR browser you will notice that the magnet links do not work when you click on them. This is an inherent security feature in TOR, but you can still activate the link. Here is how:
Step 1. Right click on desired magnet link and select open in a new tab.
Step 2. Copy the entire address bar. (This is the actual link to the torrent)
Step 3. In Transmission or other software click file, then select add URL. This will add the magnet link to the program and it will begin to search for meta data right away as it should.
Thanks guys and good torrent hunting! -MegaohmZ-
Hey there!
I just wanted to point out, that the proper way to allow Tor browser to open magnet links with an external application (or actually invoke any other external app) is in the about:config page.
If you've never used about:config in firefox, you should probably get familiar with it first.
In there, look for a bunch of preferences that start like:
network.protocol-handler.external
Those values control whether firefox will attempt to call another program to open links with protocols it can't handle itself.
By default, there shouldn't be one for "magnet", if there is, just flip it to "true".
If there isn't, just right-click somewhere on the list, and create a new boolean parameter, and name it:
network.protocol-handler.external.magnet
And set it to true. Next time you click a magnet link, you'll see a warning, click accept and it should open in your default torrent application.
Note that your application will not necessarily connect via TOR network.
It won't if you're only using TOR browser, it should if all your computer's traffic is redirected through by other means.
Normally not an issue, unless you fear you can actually be prosecuted and/or jailed for what you're trying to download. However that would require you to actually be under constant govt. monitoring for some reason, and so, it's unlikely.
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To simplify:
Tor browser will only handle http/https WEB browser and *NOT* the actual P2P downloads, so you would be fully exposed without a VPN.
Moe mentioned using Tor as a full proxy (which would need to be configured in your torrent software), BUT....
Tor was never designed to handle high bandwith connections, and it would be considered bad manners there.
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