Hello all,
I’m a huge amateur when it comes to this stuff (I had a guy hold my hand on the phone and walk me through this) but I use Newsgroupdirect and buy blocks when they go on sale.
Is there a better group to do this from (or cheaper). I’m happy here but I saw an article that had some different places listed and it got me thinking.
Which group do you use?
I imagine it must be nice living in a place where your government doesn’t care. Enjoy your free torrents. I’m ok with a few bucks here and there
C’mon you’ve plenty of private trackers you can join with an invite from someone else and nobody will easily track you like they can do in public torrents.
I’m kinda over this conversation. I posted asking for input, not someone being argumentative. If you had a stronger argument, maybe I’d change my ways and look into what you’re saying. I politely tried to say I hear you, but I’m good with what I do and you keep digging. At no point have you said anything that makes a strong case, helpful to what I asked or isn’t dismissive. Have a good night
I do have an argument: https://lemmy.world/comment/7648533
Any free private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled thus making their torrents invisible for your typical govt / private entity searching for pirates. If those torrents aren’t public and can’t be searched indexed via DHT then the ISP or whatever knows you’re using the bittorrent protocol but they don’t know for what content. This particularly correct if you use sane settings in your torrent clients such as a blocklist + requiring encryption for all connections.
If you do those simple things and a use a private tracker you trust then your ISP/Govt can’t point fingers at you, they’ve no way of knowing what you’re downloading.
Are you saying that you haven’t heard of media company affiliates prowling in such groups from invites given to them?
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What you’re saying isn’t correct, at least for properly configured private trackers and clients.
I did try that website and that’s the thing, the only torrents that show up are public ones. Torrents from private trackers like iptorrents are not showing on that list as expected. They don’t show, because they can’t access them, just read their about page and you’ll understand why:
Any private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled for their torrents because if they didn’t then the torrents were essentially public.
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What you said was: “Private tracker torrents are still visible to the public” and this isn’t true.
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The thing is that private tracker aren’t visible on that link.
That is a shady sketchy as fuck Russian site. Please, if anyone is reading this, DO NOT access it or put your fucking IP in there.
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I didn’t put anything in. But I went there (on mobile). Any real risk?
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Thank you taking the time to respond with such a detailed response. I wasn’t too worried about it as I don’t do my shady stuff on mobile but figured it was worth the ask.
Other than a couple of bad faith actors here and there, I’ve found this community to be super tolerant and helpful - thanks!