The first site I ever used for getting e-books was the-eye.eu’s World Tracker Library. When the-eye went down and came back it looked like most of that section was gone, but just recently I discovered that there’s still an enormous collection of links at https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/World Tracker Library/worldtracker.org/media/library/English Literature/sitemap.htm. However, actually trying to click on any of the links to download promptly results in me being blocked by one of my adblockers with the following message:
uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:
Because of the following filter:
/jr.php?gz=$document Found in:
uBlock filters – Badware risks
Since it’s an adblocker, though, I dunno how much of a risk there really is. I’d really like to be able to use these files as they’re a lot more conveniently organized than the other sites I’ve been forced to use since the-eye originally died, but not at a risk to my computer.
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I use it, its pretty good resource for most PDF files I want, also check annas-archive.org if you only download ebooks exclusively
Anna’s archive is god tier for ebooks.
annas-archive is useful for looking for something in particular, but I don’t like that there’s no way to browse it.
I used to download hard-to-find Windows ISOs from them but sadly they haven’t reappeared last time I visited.
I know the-eye is less than reputable in the eyes (NPI) of many other tracker administrators. Something about trying to replicate other trackers and not willing to play by the rules set down by other trackers for good reasons.
Do a search for
chat logs leaked the-eye discordThat was a ridiculous drama between them. They painted thearchivist and his team like some kind of terrorists and shit lol
I generally don’t really regard private trackers highly so just off of that I’m skeptical. And I’ve only had good experiences with the eye/archivist/his people
libgen.rs is imo one of the best sites for e-books. Until now I found everything I needed.
There’s a few badware filters available for UBO. These filter lists are all maintained on a volunteer basis and it’s not absolute that if a filter trips a warning it’s for sure a bad site. I’m an avid UBO user myself, have it customized to an extent using advanced options. I tend to trust the warnings I get, but can you also take them with a grain of salt.
If you really want or need to access the site you can investigate the flag and assess the risk yourself. If you find it’s not actually a threat, typically UBO gives you the option to ignore the warning and continue. You can also whitelist stuff on a site by site basis.
The option to ignore it exists, but I dunno how to test whether or not it’s safe without actually potentially exposing my computer to malware. Which is the whole problem.
@various_characters as far as I can see, the links are going to the original site (worldtracker[.]org), which is now redirecting to some sketchy website…
