TorBox has updated the Fair Use Policy to count cached transfers due to all the shtheads who are oversharing accounts/selling API keys and slowing down the servers.

May 6: "Which transfers count?

Any transfer that is not served from TorBox's cache counts towards your usage threshold. Cached transfers do not count towards this limit."

May 20: "Which transfers count?

Incoming Transfers:

• Any uncached transfer from the Internet to TorBox.

Outgoing Transfers:

• Any transfer from TorBox to your device.
• Any transfer from TorBox to the Internet. (seeding, hoster uploads, etc)."

"Any transfer" means streaming is counted too. But only the amount you actually watched. So if you open a 90GB file and immediately close it, you may only have streamed 50 megabytes. If you quit watching a movie halfway, it would only count half of the size, etc. So it's safe to open large files to check them. It will only count the amount of data you actually streamed.

To monitor your usage, they have added a new graph to your user account menu which shows the last 30 day bandwidth usage. You can check your usage there.

People who download uncached torrents can disable seeding via "Settings: Website: Default Seed Torrents: Never", if you aren't on a private tracker and don't care about ratio.

The fair use limits are different per tier. These are their lowest limits (floor) of enforcements, so if you are below these you are not affected:

• Essential - 10TB/month (10000 GB)
• Standard - 20TB/month (20000 GB)
• Pro - 30TB/month (30000 GB)

Are you a normal person? Then you won't notice anything. Even if you insist on watching 90 GB videos, you would have to watch 111 movies (8 hours per day every day) on the Essential plan. And if you watch 20 GB files, it is around 500 movies. And if you watch "Netflix 4K" it is around 1250 movies. That's a real example of how big 10 terabytes is.

Hopefully they continue to adjust fair use limits to get rid of the major abuse that is slowing down the servers for everyone else.

And for anyone saying they're leaving over this: Where will you move? Back to Real-Debrid which bans you if you connect from two different IPs and where 80% of the content is deleted? Or to All-Debrid which is also in France and subject to the same laws as RD? Or to the $10 Premiumize which lets you download 30 gigabytes per day (they give you 30 points per day which is the currency for bandwidth)?

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Serious Update: A growing number of users are claiming that they don't count actual bandwidth usage, and instead immediately count the full size of the torrent as soon as you start streaming any file. Which quickly racks up usage if you just check a single episode of a multi-episode torrent or peek into a large file. Others are claiming that it doesn't count the entire season size for them. We need to test this more and need to DEMAND actual usage counting. 🙈 Discuss testing about that here. When testing, keep in mind that bandwidth usage does NOT update in realtime! It might be every 30 minutes, every hour, or longer! We just know that it's delayed.

https://i.ibb.co/v67rtPrX/IMG-20260521-113009.jpg 4 TB?? 6 dias , 3 episódios de uma série e uns 4 filmes??

As most of you know, self-hosted AIOStreams users can no longer use the built in "TorBox Search" add on. That basically means losing Usenet access for TB Pro accounts. I was told the "meteor" add-on still works for Usenet, but I could not get any results from it. It does not work for me.

Right now, the only way to keep using "TorBox Search" add-on is through public AIOStreams instances like elfhosted, midnightignite, or fortheweak. I did not want to fully move away from my self-hosted setup for AIOStreams, so this is the workaround I have.

I created AIOStreams accounts on all 3 public instances and did exact same steps on each of them:

• Enabled the built in "TorBox Search" add on and set it to debrid + usenet (screenshot)
• Removed all filters in "sorting" screen, so that nothing gets filtered out. Remove all default filters and empty it. (screenshot)
• Copied the "Direct Manifest URL" from the Save & Install page (screenshot)

Moved over to my self-hosted AIOStreams instance and did the following steps;

• On my self-hosted AIOStreams, added the manifest URL that I copied earlier as "AIOStreams" add-on in the built-in marketplace. Just paste manifest URL and rename the add-on. See in this screenshot + screenshot2
• Added all 3 manifest URLs from each public instances as backup in case one goes down, the other keeps working. I renamed them properly. See in this screenshot
• Sorted my add-ons on my AIOStreams to get proper results screenshot + screenshot2
• Additionally, to avoid duplicate results from all 3 AIOStreams, I enabled "Deduplicator". See screenshot
• Finally, here you can see I get torbox search results while using my self-hosted AIOStrems - both debrid and usenet - screenshot (note: I legally own a copy of the movie in the screenshot)

By doing above steps, I still get "TorBox Search" results including Usenet ones, while keeping my main setup self-hosted. I have "torrentio" additionally, and I also have self-hosted AIOLists instance.

Links to all 3 public instances of AIOStreams (Whitelisted by TB)

AIOStreams (fortheweak)
AIOStreams (midnightignite)
AIOStreams (elfhosted)

Hey r/TorBoxApp!

It's been a bit since the last update. This update is a bit more on the minor side, with some good news and some sad news.

The Sad News

• The official TorBox (Stremio) addon has disabled & is now inaccessible.

• The official TorBox Tinfoil Service has been disabled & is now inaccessible.

• The Search API is now only accessible to Whitelisted IPs. (For Public Instance hosters & developers, please contact us via a ticket if you want to apply for a whitelist)

We know this may not be what you wanted to hear but this is done so the resources can be allocated towards better things, and we recommend checking out community alternatives for these things. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused due to this.

Important Info

• This does NOT mean that TorBox will stop working in Stremio, only the official addon is being removed. Community alternatives will continue to work as normal (and we encourage you to use them instead of the Official Addon). Please check the Reply to this post for some recommendations which are Community-Sourced and some frequently answered questions. Keep in mind, TorBox does not provide support on third party addons

With that being said,

The Good News

Website improvements:

• Uploads to cloud providers now has it’s own modal, allowing you to easily view your completed uploads. To view this click the “Upload Jobs” button.

• Better handling of Video Player & Up Next.

• Allows submitting vouchers through URL. Helps when sharing.

• Dashboard should be more responsive when uploading, deleting, stop seeding or adding new downloads.

WebDL (Web Downloads) System:

• More reliable YouTube Downloads

• Makes a few hosters downloads More reliable

API:

• Improvements to /webdl/hosters with support for regex (check full update for more info)

• A few more improvements.

We know this may not look like much but most work is going towards improving reliability so the service continues staying reliable and enjoyable to all, thanks for understanding!

Check out torbox.cooking for the full changelog!