This is definitely the quickest I ever rushed to a website to backup my favorites

Desperation and hunger for control. The streaming model - as well as digital stores - are based on controlling media; companies can dictate what products are sold, when, to who. At any point they can pull them away effortlessly, edit, raise or lower prices. The ongoing war against piracy begins first as a war against physical media and any kind of independence the customer might have when picking their products.

Now, aside from that control, the biggest corporation in the planet have also centralized their offers and distributing systems. The latest wave against anime & manga is most likely caused by the buyout of both Crunchyroll and Funimation by Sony, and the other big names in the game have also been solidifying themselves in major buyouts, except the profits aren’t coming. They need to justify their expenses, maintain their control, and make an example, so the last isles of independence must be attacked.

Hey, thanks a lot, both NewPipe and FreeTube have been giving issues lately thanks to YouTube constant fuckery.

Relied on DirtyTorrents for a while as an aggregator, now have been using LimeTorrents and TorrentDownloads as individuals sites for general use. Nyaa is still my one anime choice, FitGirl Repacks directly for games, fapforfun for hentai games.

I miss RarBG, had some good quality selection and also the only place that reliably had well-labeled, full porn movies.

I have not, though I might consider it. I only really check up on pirating software and tech every once in a while.

I had no idea qBitorrent had search built-in, I’ve been using it for years :P

Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll give it all a look later!