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It's been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It will never get recommended. It's bad for the network and bad for your privacy.

[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yes. It is better to use i2p for bittorrent. Now qbittorrent it is compatible.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would you say this is better than using a VPN or just as good?

[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Better, because it is free and secure. And at same time you are torrenting, you are helping the network. But a downside, it is the speed and amount of peers you find is less compared to the clearnet. Also it is not the best option to surf the clearnet, tor is better at this.

[–] 520@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago

Always will be because of the way the two technologies work at a fundamental level.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally on the current download page:

https://i.imgur.com/5I4gjZH.jpg

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Then I'm sorry for not reading carefully.

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 years ago
[–] rar@discuss.online 29 points 2 years ago

It's never been recommended and it never was a good idea.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago
[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could probably rent a seedbox or more generic service like an aws ecs instance and then download from the seedbox or s3 via tor.