Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed I can’t download any torrents or magnet links on 1337x without clicking Download without VPN.

At first, I wasn’t even seeing the bottom half of that popup since uBlock was blocking it. When I added a custom rule to block the popup, that totally broke the download buttons, so I had to disable uBlock.

Is anyone else noticing this? I’m not going to disable my adblocker on freaking 1337x, I’ll just stop going to 1337x 😆

Unless that’s some error, what were they thinking?

  • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    Oh no the adblocker makes it worse here actually. It just blocks the buttons but the popup still appears and has no x button to close it.

    This was an an insanely garbage attempt from 1337x to push their own VPN harder.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I have UBO and had to disable it, refresh the page, then re-enable it, and refresh the page again and even then I still get the popup but at least it gives me the option to click download anyway. Maybe it’s a browser thing, maybe it’s an IP address thing. I dunno but it’s buggy as hell and super unreliably coded.

        • Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          Today got that, I can’t copy magnet. No need to disable UBO, just did “block element”, that created in my filters:

          1337x.to###freevpnBG

          And now works as expected.

          • Kribensis@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            9·
            7 months ago

            Yup, you got it! I had to tweak the filter a bit: 1337x.to###freevpn was what worked for me.

            The UBO UI is really bad, always has been. Just awful. It’s easy to miss customizing the rule once you select the element.

            Pretty ironic that out of every reply in the thread, yours is the best answer and has no upvotes. Much appreciated!

            • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              Hey, come on I hadn’t checked back yet to upvote it too… but yeah holy moly that’s great to know and also still a pain.