Great read from Tuta on thia topic. It's been an issue for a while but Google going full force publicly on it causes this issue to grow greater.
I left a comment replying to someone further down about how this can be at least a little combatted and how it is with browsers. (At least to my minimal knowledge of it)
So from what I understand, theres 2 common ways that browsers combat this. Someone add to or correct me if I'm wrong.
Ex: Everyone wearing black pants and hoodies with the facemasks. Extremely hard to tell who is who.
Ex: look like a dog in one place, a cat in another place. They get data for a dog but that doesn't help build anything if the rest of the data is a cat, hamster, whatever. No way to piece it together to be useful.
In both my examples, there are caveats. Just because everyone dressed the same doesn't mean someone isn't taller or shorter, or skinnier or fatter. There can still be tells to help narrow down. Or a cat that barks like a dog suddenly is more linkable to a dog if that makes sense lol.
In other words it still depends user behavior that can contribute to the effectiveness of these tools.
EDIT: got distracted. To answer your question I don't think so. I think it's more about user behavior blending in or being randomized. I think the only thing an extension would be able to do is possibly randomize the data but I'm unsure of such an extension yet. These aren't the only options, these are just ones I've read about recently. Online behavior, browswr window size, and I'm sure so much more also goes into it. But every little bit helps and is better than nothing.
EDIT2: Added examples for each for clarity.
Woah woah woah sir. These are Linux ISOs. No pirating here :)
That's amazing! Thank you for sharing! Also, ATLA... Didn't realize I was speaking with a man of class. Thank you my good sir.
Didn't know about identify. Is the in the dashboard settings for media or directly on the "watch" page that shows all media for viewing?
Kind of seconding this, I can't speak for VPN routers, but i recently had a leak when I thought my kill switch was on and apparently something failed (probably me).
From now on I run both my PCs VPN as well as bind it directly to the torrent client. Same connection, just extra "kill switch" coverage.
Of course it all depends on how you want to do things/does all traffic need to route through a vpn/etc.
Ah nice. Well I think I just tried when I first set it up, saw it mess up, and figured I needed to rename, I'll give it another try with this batch I upload later.
I will definitely give it a retry then. I mentioned in another comment that I could've sworn it didn't when I first started and that's why I started renaming, but I'll try it again. Thanks!
If I remember correctly, when I first started the server, it was showing the name on the server as the long name with details instead of just the movie name. Although that could have been my fault.
On the seeding side, I've tried seeding the renamed files through the torrent but it seems since the movie names didn't match it would start trying to download again instead of seeding directly. I may try transmission but I likes qbittorrents interface linking to the vpn. Transmission seems to need it typed out while qbittorrent let's you select from a list. I just felt more confident having it selected as opposed to typed out.
It definitely felt like a right of passage lol. Ill be saving that. Might have to put it up on the wall to look back upon in my elder days.
That's exactly how I do it too. Life is expensive so it's hard to give to FOSS. But if the software you use is worth skipping a coffee run, or whatever it is just to give 1 or 2 bucks (yes I know coffee isn't that cheap lol) then that's just as good as giving more. Every little bit helps.
Awesome, that was my next topic to look at was shows. Thanks for clarifying!