drunkensailor

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fuck... subscene is closing down (in less than 12 hours) UPDATE: has now closed down (forum.subscene.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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UPDATE: Just checked and subscene is now down for me

So... what're your guys favorite alternatives?

The ones I'm aware of but haven't used much are:

UPDATE 2: needed subs for an ep of a moderately popular crime procedural show that aired 4 days ago on a regular tv channel, so updated to note experience with them. tested in librewolf on vpn:

  • english-subtitles (dot) org : had latest subs, no issues downloading.
  • subdl (dot) com : site was realy fast compared to some of the others. had latest subs, no issues downloading. that said, it had creditted the uploaders from subscene so it was easy to see that the subs were just copied from there. i probably need to retest this stuff again in with something else in a few days to see which sites are getting new uploads that arent just copied from subscene.
  • my-subs (dot) co : did NOT had subs for latest ep. did have subs for previous ep. no issues downloading.
  • podnapisi (dot) net : had some weird css fuckup on the search results (i use always https mode so maybe realted to that?). but they had latest subs and no issues downloading.
  • subtitlecat (dot) com : mostly for translations. Otherwise I generally avoid this one since I prefer my subs to be spot-on. had latest ep, no issues downloadig.
  • ~~yifysubtitles (dot) me~~ : they did not even have current season of the show. if they did, then there search sucks balls so hard you might get a ruptured testicle.
  • ~~opensubtitles (dot) org~~ : update: these guys use fucking google fucking recaptcha which has been extremely fucking assholish in firefox/librewolf lately especially when on vpn (im talking you can submit 15+ correct and it still say you wrong and dont let you pass). so they can fuck right off my list until they decide to switch to literally anything else besides recaptcha. seriously guys how can you call yourselves "open" anything and using fucking google recaptcha. you can do better than this.

Happy to hear complaints on any to avoid too.

edit: for any curious why, I found this is from an older thread from before the final closing announcement:

24 February 2024

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Yesterday, we received unfortunate news from one of our trusted admins stating that the owner of the site intends to shut it down due to insufficient revenue.

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I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…

  1. qbittorrent is better in many many ways compared to utorrent and hasa very similar interface. qbit is open-source, utorrent isn't. qbit doesn't have ads or malware, utorrent has or has had both many times. qbit allows you to bind to a specific network interface (e.g. you VPN connection instead of regular ethernet one) which offer better protection if your vpn drops. feel free to do your own research here or elsewhere on the web if you doubt any of my points.
  2. if your VPN is a free one, that wont protect you at all. those guys will squeal and turn over server logs with ip address at the drop of a hat. Even a lot of paid-for VPNs are shitty lying bastards. So picking a good vpn can be challenging there are probably posts here covering recommendations but generally you want ones that have either been taken to court and were unable to provide logs OR ones that have been audited by a respected 3rd party firm that can confirm they are truly a "no log VPN". I can recommend PIA, NordVPN, and Mullvad as some ones that are highly unlikely to turn over any logs (bc they don't have them) but there are others and doing your own research isn't a bad thing. The site torrentfreak.com does an article once a year or so that covers a few of the more popular VPNs and different aspects of thier privacy but they don't declare a "best vpn", just rate them on varius privacy and security aspects.
  3. Even if you have a good VPN, check that you aren't leaking your real IP via dns lookups: ipleak.net or dnsleaktest.com
  4. Check that you torrent client set up not to leak: search for 'torrent ip leak test' and do one of the torrent ip leak tests. ipleak.net hasone of these if you scroll down on the page; look for "Torrent Address detection" and click "Activate" button and it will give a magnet link to start test with
  5. additionally, you can set up a "vpn killswitch" to prevent traffic from going over regular internet if you vpn drops. If you using qbit, this probably isn't strictly required but many people here like to have this as an additional safety. i can't really provide details on this bc the process varies widely. A lot of VPN client apps have this feature built in. But even if they don't, you can set something like this up in most firewalls but exact steps will vary depending on OS (Windows/Linux/Mac) and which firewall you are using (or I guess whether or not you even have one installed).