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I Know What You Download (via torrent) (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm in the same boat, I haven't torrented the "traditional" way in YEARS ever since I moved over to the superior Usenet

And yet, I'm seeing a small history list here as of a couple days ago hmmm and I'm on Crapcast so CGNET doesn't apply

Looks like I'll be doing some investigating today :/ maybe it's time I got off my ass and got Suricuta running on pfsense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did your transition to Usenet look like? I just transferred from torrenting to Soulseek myself but it isn’t cutting it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I transitioned to using it primarily for Sonarr and Radarr for TV and Movies. Its mostly a set and forget it if you choose the right providers and indexers.

I don't sail the Music sea because Spotify has filled all my needs for the price, same for the Gaming sea because of Game Pass.

Software, I usually just look around for freeware/open source alternatives or pay for it if it's of quality and worth the price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder if Xfinity hotspots could be this? Are you using their modem / router ?

Edit: also glad to hear Usenet is doing well. I switched to it a long time ago and uses for a bit. Though I remember so many items being removed due to dmca. All my downloads were just text files saying removed by dmca over and over again. So I ended up switching back to torrent via seedbox. Now I just use real debrid. Don’t feel like bothering with other setups lately lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am, but I disabled the xfinitywifi right out of the box.

Although it wouldn't surprise me if it "spontaneously" reactivated itself, but even if it did (and Crapcast can be trusted on what they say on this) it's supposed to be isolated to the point that it gets its own assigned IP separate from what is assigned to your connection

I really haven't had DMCA issues on my Usenet providers, but you do gotta be choosy, iirc the biggest ones you probably subbed to won't ignore DMCA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I am almost positive they do force itself back on sometimes lol. Though you are right that it shouldn’t share your IP. But like short of someone you don’t know having access to your WiFi it has to be something weird like that lol

Good to know about Usenet. I haven’t used it in a decade and have no idea what provider I was using. I was also younger and dumber so prob didn’t realize I could have just switched providers. Me at the time thought the dmca Usenet was more of a global issue. I now realize that likely wasn’t the case lol