Madbrad200

I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that's not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

Also even reccomended torrent search engine websites suck and only crawls through some websites is there any you would rec

Stop using these sources and learn how to use qBittorrent with Jackett. You can search hundreds of trackers all ata once in seconds. You won't miss anything unless it's literally just not available anywhere.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn't try that.

Honestly not sure about this. Seems a bit uninspired

Just block the ads with a DNS blocker, like NextDNS.

I feel like it has more to do with the technological advances than being more prone to conflict

A big budget doesn't guarantee success though. See LOTR series.

Yup. Reality. No point using a hyper secure chat system if literally nobody you know is using it.

I still remember the ordeal of getting through the Fade portion of Origins... it was awful.

The rest of the game was top notch though