I had the same issue this that site. I think it is caused by ad block. I browse the internet with Firefox that have ad blocking addons installed, but always have Chrome installed without any adddons to test sites just in case. And on chrome it worked OK.

I would love to be 100% sure about this. I did this few years back. I know I searched on the internet on how the dat file should look like and came across that AMule uses these files. And explanation for all these fields can be found here.

That documentation is short but to quote the most relevant part:

IPs range , Access level , Description
Access level values lower than 127' are blocked IPs and values over 127 are allowed IPs. 

The thing is I don’t know if this is a some kind of standard or not and I don’t know if qBittorrent needs (and respects) those two other fields. Maybe it even ignores them, because why would an IP range would be in IP blocklist if not to block it? However, at that time I could only find that information, it did make my work any harder, it seemed to work, so I did not try to create and use a filter without them.

I misread your post. I looked into my script and I actually used ip2location as a source for IP ranges. However, I can’t seem to find a way to download them (at least without an account) in csv file. Most likely they changed that. Or maybe I just copied them from the page by hand (pro tip just mark first cell, then go down to the end of the table and while holding SHIFT mark the last one).

I can find where I found it, because that was first and last time I dealt with *.dat files, but I script makes line look like this:

1.0.1.0 - 1.0.3.255 , 000 , china ban ip range from ip2location

with spaces and all.

It seems to work. If anyone wants a China ban list or the script, let my know with reply.

I don’t know how much extra memory my qBittorrent uses with that list (718 ranges/lines), but as a reference with 1427 torrents it uses ~8GB of RAM.

For me it is China after I noticed that a lot of them uses some kind of strange client that always shows that they have 0 progress to get better priority from other pears. Later after I started to look into it I noticed that they do not even seed.

It’s posible to use a file too. The is an option just above that filter field. I think it’s more convenient, because there might be a lot of small ranges. The file just have to be formated in specific way. I remember I even found a website that allowed to export ranges for specific country in a file and I made a small Python script to format that file.

Pihole does not block YouTube adds.

You telling me you couldn’t install nvidia drivers on Ubuntu? It’s one of the friendlies distros for new users out there.

Official instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaDriversInstallation

TLDR: “sudo ubuntu-drivers install” if that fails read the instructions.

qBittorrent-nox is as separate as you can get. It can be run on the server without GUI. It also provides WebUI, that can be modified if you wish, but you don’t have to use it. Moreover, most (if not all) settings can be edited through the text file and torrents added using CLI.

qBittorrent, when Web-UI is enabled (doesn’t matter if it’s nox or not), provides and API too. IF you have a client you can connect and manage everything using it. However, the only clients I know are for android.

You mean something like running qbittorrent-nox and connecting to it using web ui?