

Instead, you can use the search function that comes with your BitTorrent client. Thankfully, nowadays, you don't have to visit such sites. And they may even obfuscate the magnet links, diverting them for ad clicks.

They also usually run questionable JavaScript code in your browser. The most popular sites where you can find such links are littered with ads of scantily dressed people too eager to meet you in person. Unfortunately, they're a great idea ruined by piracy and malicious users. "Magnet links" are small bundles of data that "inform" the BitTorrent client about a torrent's name, contents, and potential locations for jumpstarting its download. Actually, there are many more than one such point: they're the sites where users seek what's known as "magnet links". Despite BitTorrent being a decentralized peer-to-peer network where users exchange data, it still has a weak central point.
