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What do you mean by "safety"? A DHT Crawler primarily just looks for torrent hashes in the DHT network & then adds them to its search database. The torrent data itself is not being downloaded & tested for viruses/malware/anything like that.
That aside most/all of the common media formats wouldn't have virus/malware issues (mp4, mkv, etc.). Just don't be one of those people that downloads a random .exe file, then executes that program expecting it to be a movie.
Yes, I understand that. What I was asking was whether these DHT search engines can assess the trustworthiness of the sites or sources the torrents come from and filter them out accordingly (by a list of websites for example). For instance, I saw that one of the torrents I was looking for was from 1337x.to, but some others don’t mention their source. Therefore, I was wondering if there is some kind of filter or mechanism in place to determine the reliability of the torrents based on their origin. Additionally, I occasionally download software or games, which are not media formats. That’s why I was curious about the safety aspect.
No.
The torrent hashes come from the DHT network, not from any particular websites or uploaders.
That may or may not be the case, that "1337x.to" text just happens to be in the torrent name that was pulled up with the infohash. Anyone can create a torrent & write in any sort of tag they want, there's no verification that specific magnet is actually from 1337x.
Yeah be careful with that, these DHT crawlers are not downloading these torrents to verify if they are safe and free from malware/virus/miners/etc.
Not too sure why the other comment said Bitsearch is safe, they too do not have the ability to verify that torrent executables are actually safe. Though to be fair both BTDigg and Bitsearch websites are "safe" e.g. neither of their webpages are actively trying to run malware in your web browser or anything like that...but that's not quite what you were asking.