I have off and on through the years downloaded some things by using magnet links from The Pirate Bay. I've been working on a nice NAS (DS923+) setup that is now running Jellyseerr, Jellyfin, QBittorrent, Radarr, and Sonarr. Everything seems to be linked up, and my media is being hosted a-okay. However, in order to get the Jellyseerr / Radarr / Sonarr bit working, I need proper indexers. I have never really understood this world. I know I need an invite, and I just missed a window with one. I'm trying to figure what is best and how to get in the in-crowd.
Can anybody instruct on how these trackers work when compared to just pulling from TPB. Also, how can one get hooked up with an invite. I didn't want to ask this on my main account for obvious reasons, but I'm sure many people could benefit from learning this too; especially as the media landscape gets worse and worse.
I am attempting to solve this via firewall. I block all RFC1918 source traffic on the LAN interface but allow all traffic on the VPN interface. That seems to function reliably. I’ve tested that I can egress while the VPN is active but not at all when it goes down.
If this is not a good solution, let me know, but it seems reliable and doesn’t require any other tooling.
I realize this doesn’t fit your use case since you have other connections you don’t want in the VPN, but I’m still curious if others use this setup.