Alldebrid I'm not familiar with; as far as I can tell it's a download agrigator/cache. They collect torrents and other downloads at the slow ish speeds of peer-to-peer torrenting, then allow you to download directly from them at higher speeds as they have the full file available. Not a free service and not all that helpful imo. But to each their own.

The reason for Jackett/Prowlarr is various indexer sites have different APIs accepting search queries and returning results in slightly different ways. Prowlarr/Jackett act as a middleman translating this information into formats each indexer and querying software understands so each of those devs don't have to work on supporting each indexer separately. I'm pretty sure it also caches some requests/responses so you aren't hitting indexers multiple times in a row for the same searches, helping with rate limits. As well as just providing a nice central place to manage indexers that may be used by many different bits of software in your setup.

.nzb is the equivalent of .torrent files but for usenet.

[–] Drudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah ok, thanks👍

Last question, hopefully an easy one. How do you actually download the files without getting in trouble? Behind a VPN? Or does Usenet somehow have protection?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are connecting to usenets servers via an encrypted connection and downloading directly from them. Your isp cannot inspect this traffic because of the encryption and you are not publicly broadcasting your actions (unlike with torrents) besides the initial connection to a usenet server which in itself is perfectly fine. It's primary a message board system that also happens to be leveraged for file sharing. Nothing inherently illegal about that.

The usenet host assumes all the risk by hosting the content. It's up to them to not be hosting illegal/copyrighted content. You're just reading publicly available messages.

[–] Drudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, thank you!

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Usenet doesn't need a VPN because it's a direct download, it's encrypted with TLS.

For torrents, you will have to put your torrent client behind a VPN, but it's recommended to leave everything else(e.g. *arrs) not behind a VPN so it doesn't misbehave. If you're using docker, you can use a container with a built-in VPN like https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/config-options/

[–] Gailthesnail@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

you have to use debrid like a streaming service in combination with a streaming app like kodi, syncler, stremio to get the full convenience. no need to scrape for torrents it just streams the file directly from the debrid cache so you can watch massive 4k blurays instantly with no buffering