Ladies and Gentlemen, Demonoid is back online after being shut down for almost two years. The website came back online some time yesterday under the demonoid.ph domain name with this message on the home page.
Demonoid, once one of the Internet's most popular torrent sites, is now barring users who try to visit the site with advert blocking software Adblock installed. The move raises some interesting questions, not least the value of revenue to torrent sites and the intricacies of whether or not content really should be 'free'.
Stop with the invasive ads then.... I had ad-block off for an entire day not too long ago and it was seriously the most annoying experience ever. Click on a news article then have to close 5 pop-ups, sliding ads, flashing ads.... etc... then as you are reading, more pop up or you can't put your mouse over certain words.
With sites like Demonoid they trick you and put a stupid "download now" ad right next to the actual download button.
I'm fine whitelisting sites like this (N4G, Techspy etc) because I come here all the time and want to support it, but when your site is basically 90 percent ads then no. Find new ways to advertise, get better partnerships or something, I dunno. The era of 90's style ads is out dated now.
thats fine. im sure people will just find another site to use to download torrents. much like how the pirates bring up torrent sites when they brought down. everyone just moves along to the next one.
PS - adblock is part of my windows security along with antivirus and firewall. if i was using linux mint like before, itd be a different story.
Well i just checked and it isn't blocking me. I'm using Firefox 37.0.2 in private browsing mode with Adblock Plus & the Popup blocker addon, NoScript, Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPEverywhere, Peerblock with practically every additional list available, ZoneAlarm Antivirus+Firewall, Spybot 1.62 & MBAE. All settings on everything are maxed.
You must have a beast of a rig, if I tried near as many adon's, I'd be bleeding ram from my 2008 laptop. lol
I'm not blocked, however, to quote their site: "affiliates such as BTGuard owes us a lot of money"
How is this the user's problem?
If these guys don't know how to make money on the internet without popups then they might need to go take a comp sci 101 class.
Embedding ads is easy and cheap but aren't annoying to users.
In one of the harshest moves a search engine can take against a site, during the past few hours Google flagged torrent site Demonoid as likely to harm users' computers. After arriving at the conclusion that malicious third-party ads had caused the problem, Demonoid responded by disabling every single advert on its site until further notice.
Ad banners are usually the cause of this. When you operate sites like these, you can't run ads from reputable exchanges like Adsense, Rubicon, etc.
TorrentFreak- After more than a year of downtime the Demonoid tracker came back online today. The tracker is linked to nearly 400,000 torrent files and more than a million peers, which makes it one of the largest working BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. There is no word yet on when the site will make a full comeback, but the people behind it say they are working to revive one of the most famous file-sharing communities.
That's nice to hear.
Last time this site came back turned out to be a scam. I wouldn't trust it
Oh look! Free content! -unknowingly downloads malware-
if this is true, if i was a memember, i should still be one right?
doesnt work