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[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In early 2019 bittorrent's website views fluctuated between ~6M to ~9M. Now it's around 3M to 4M.

In early 2019 utorrent's visits fluctuated between ~26M to ~75M. Now it sits around 25M to 21M.

The fact that there were far more captures in early 2019 for both of them might be an indication that this was their peak, and while visits have reduced since then they're far from dying.

Streaming services may be part of the reason, though I also think it's because many games and software have switched to freemium & microtransactions so spending money is optional, along with the fact that free and open source alternatives to mainstream software have become more robust and popular. When I was a kid I torrented Sony Vegas, but now that's simply not necessary since we have DaVinci Resolve.

[-] Laser@feddit.de 21 points 9 months ago

uTorrent sold out, its decline is not only due to BitTorrent becoming less popular, but also because what was once a very thin client at one point was bundled with malware so a lot of people kept using old versions or switched to clients like qBitTorrent

[-] Facni@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

Well, people have migrated from Utorrent to qbittorrent or other BT clients after Utorrent was classified as malware.

[-] Facni@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

and bittorrent.com owns Utorrent so...

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I have never visited the actual website of any of the clients either. Getting programs from their website is so windows XP.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Magazine CDs and DVDs were my bacon.

[-] neonred@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

apt-get install qbittorrent why would I visit their site for any reason?

And just to add - why is torrenting associated with shady stuff? Linux isos are available and download much faster over it, same for some monolithic applications like LibreOffice and other regular stuff.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn’t matter, Linux users a tiny minority of end users and those using Debian’s package manager are a minority of even that. You’re less than a rounding error.

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