It can show things that you've never downloaded if your ISP assigns a dynamic or shared IP. So it means some of your neighbors are into that kind of thing.
I selfhost stuff, so same IP for over a year.
Do you have kids?
They clearly have a daughter who has a hot friend, can't you read?
I don't, but if I did, why would they stop at just 2? I wouldn't raise a quitter!
You think you'd remember a thing like that...
I Know What You Download From A Select Few Public Trackers We Monitor
And this is why - all together now - "An IP is not an ID". They don't know what you've downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren't useful, alone.
Meanwhile me, who is behind so many layers of badly configured ISP NAT that there's no way anyone knows exactly what computer is downloading what: 😈
My fellow Windscribe VPN users are downloading some freaky shit.
Some guy on Nord downloaded "FacialAbuse E918 MILFs Cervix Gets Dilated And Sucks In Breeding Batter XXX 1080p HEVC x265 PRT[XvX]" >.>
Personally I feel that E933 is where the series really hit its stride
Must be the server you are connecting to. Most of mine is not porn like Last Week Tonight and the stuff that is porn is pretty vanilla stuff like Hookup Hotshots and Kinky Family.
Home internet was empty. Mobile internet has a few Marvel movies and shit like that. VPN has child porn.
Feels pretty icky to share the same ip as some people downloading those lame ass movies
So they're giving you a magnet link to child porn? Nice. Sue them.
The right answer is indeed in the comments. Let them sue me for downloading before I go pay for helping pedos out
How bizarre, none of the items on the list were actually things I downloaded, and none of the things I downloaded were on the list.
Same for me... I wonder what's going on? ~/s~
probably your ISP doing funky things
Public perception isn't aware of the dynamic and changing nature of most IP addresses.
Once you are though it's easy to see why the site might not work or even show incorrect results.
Lol it's blank.
Mine was full of stuff, all of it incorrect. Which I assume means my VPN is doing its job lol
This legitimately is only showing me Linux ISOs... Huh... Guess I'm good to go then!
I've been using mullvad for a few years—since PIA got bought out—and would recommend it if you're concerned about trust.
So, using a VPN doesn't actually eliminate all possibility of being tracked. All you're doing is replacing who can potentially see all of your data, from your ISP to the VPN provider, so trust is actually a pretty important factor.
When I switched the consensus at the time was that mullvad was the most true to its privacy statement, i.e. trustworthy. A lot of other vpns are cheaper or have more bells and whistles, but have histories of data breaches or scandals, are based in countries with weak privacy/strong surveillance laws, or are owned by companies that may have an interest in the customers data (like with the PIA acquisition I mentioned).
Mullvad too has had a few incidents where they were served court orders to provide data to the police, but iirc no data was ever actually given up. Plus, they allow a bunch of different privacy-centric payment methods, including just sending cash in an envelope.
I'd recommend taking a look at some more recent discussions comparing VPNs but I think considering mullvad is a good place to start.
since PIA got bought out
For what it's worth, I opted to wait until I had my first issue with PIA after the buyout to switch and it just never really happened. I've remained on PIA for my sea-sailing needs, and still haven't had an ISP email or other problem with them, other than the client being a little janky on occasion.
I'm not an active advocate or anything, but my experience is that they're still good enough, even years after the acquisition. Perhaps they're using the data for something behind the scenes, but it's cheap and keeps my ISP off my back. I'd at least still consider it in the "good enough for this purpose" category.
It is always a joy to see what my virtual neighbors download... Some have a very refined... Taste.
*Results my vary in accuracy due to the nature of dynamic, Shared, or incorrectly assigned IP Addresses.
Also
*Results only included from Public trackers, private trackers do not show up.
the results for me are hilarious, who knew people in my general area downloaded so much porn... and... weird porn at that
it's literally only porn, who the heck torrents porn?
some of the most hilariously sounding things on that list:
::: spoiler very nsfw
FATAL ECSTASY.rar
I was looking for work as a voice actor but I was made to do a motion capture sex.rar
Picking up girl on the way home from a live show and having sex!.rar
Divine Fuck VR ~Sex Worship~
Sailor Girl Stuck In A Wall.rar
ReEro - Ejaculating in Another World ver.2.0 [EnglishMTL].rar
Intercourse Study Week.rar
:::
Sailor Girl Stuck In A Wall.rar
Just when I think nothing can surprise me anymore.
Sites like these are always useless, they never showed jack shit for me. Because I don't use public trackers I stick with private ones and those stupid Bots don't have access to private trackers
Any suggestions for good private trackers?
There are plenty of good ones out there, but be ready to invest a lot of time getting into them. The accounts I have I have had for over 10 years and it took probably a good 2 to 3 years to actually get into those better places. You have to actually build up a reputation of maintaining good ratio at smaller sites and get invited by a member. It's a pain in the ass but it's also worth it, way better content, way better speeds
Try to find a place with open registration or someone whose got a spare invite. Ive managed to get into a couple. But to get into the better private trackers it takes time building up your intro private tracker accounts.
I’ll admit, this spooked me, but for different reasons than the OP and most comments.
I didn’t recognize any of the downloads, even though I have a publicly routable static IP and don’t use a VPN (I have a domain and self host so I know my IP hast changed in years).
I use exclusively private trackers, and nothing I’ve actually downloaded showed up, and the things that did were sporadic—one every couple days or so, first/last seen times identical, random torrents. I started asking myself if I had a rogue device in my network, so I checked logs and stats—nothing unusual (I think…I hope…hard to tell sometimes).
I looked more into how this site tracks peers, and it seems they have different levels of confidence. Their first API tier (peer API) is a “best guess” and this is based on listening to the DHT and PeX networks for their known torrents. I’m guessing their website uses this or a combination of this with their other APIs. I looked at my torrent config and saw I hadn’t disabled DHT/PeX and had a couple idle public torrents.
Not positive on this, but I think there can be false positives if your torrent box participates in DHT/PeX even if it doesn’t actually download said torrents. Can anyone confirm this?
Lol somebody using the same VPN as me downloaded a 275 GB collection of some porn star's videos... 5 hours in the future
(I know about time zones, don't @ me)
Being behind IPv6 CGNAT mean I see other's people downloads too with "my" ip
Does CGNAT protect from ISP letters?
Because for all the pain it causes me, it should at least be useful for something
I've never pirated anything, of course, but I also never got a letter since I was switched to CGNAT
I can see hundreds of downloads and none are mine lol
It also thinks I'm in North America when I'm in Australia (currently no VPN to view it), which is the first site that put me outside the country
I don't use a VPN and the list that comes up for me here isn't remotely accurate
It says mine is a static IP when it's not. And shows some downloads that I don't even know.
Dynamic IP for the win!
Heads up, this website doesn't get data on stuff you download from private trackers, only public.
Website is blank for me. I guess that just confirms my suspicions that a VPN would be a waste of money for me personally
I suspect they can only track certain public torrents
Same here.
Cool. The government is incompetent and tech illiterate here so I'm safe anyway. It's like running from a bear, I just have to outrun the others running from it.
There are people who pirate stuff from telegram using their mobile numbers, so I'm fine.
Telegram is encrypted.
not the group chats
The account details aren't in public servers.
It's empty. Good.
Same
TIL I download tantra, kama sutra and yoni massage books/epubs
Great to see the IP scrambling works as it is supposed to
Christ, that's really creepy. Starting to regret sharing this but I guess the awareness is good?
I just recently started running Bitmagnet, a DHT crawler. Let me tell you huwhat now, that just made me laugh so hard I had pee almost come out.
wdym?
It had a lot of results for basically every type of torrent you could imagine
AirVPN cuz I dont know any other with port forwarding thats cheap like that
I haven't used torrents for years, and it's showing stuff. Not on a VPN currently, and it's showing the wrong location (a bit outside my city).
Anyone know why?
Probably because you have a dynamic IP so it shows torrents from other people.
The IP location in my experience is always very incorrect
If you would like a more technical explanation search for CG-NAT. It allows ISP's to share a single static public facing IP with several customers at once.
If you had a true static IP that never changed you've only see results about torrents downloaded using your router.
Nothing for me thanks to real debrid
Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.
The folks on similar IPs to me really like porn.
I’m on Nord. I know a lot of folks on here diss it, but I’ve been mostly happy with it.
Honest question, why do people diss on Nord? (I'm also happy with Nord)
Their aggressive, misleading and clickbait ads, particularly as YouTube sponsorships. From my experience the product is fine, but the ads make it seem like their covering up for something.
Adding to this, there’s probably a general feeling that, especially with publicly traded companies (which Nord isn’t… yet), profit motive will inevitably cause a company to make decisions that don’t align with its customer’s best interests. The idealist in me thinks it’s possible for a company to be profitable without being shitty towards its customers. The cynic in me thinks there’s probably more profit in being shitty.
That said, profit keeps companies in business. If you’re getting it for free, you’re either the product, pirating it, or relying on others to keep it going. I won’t say paying for it guarantees future availability and development, but that profit motive also motivates continuing development. Kind of a double edged sword, there.
I'm on Nord too and it has been the best for getting around regional restrictions. Mullvad looks trustworthy but there were sites I couldn't access.
Hmm I had my buddy go to this and he claims his download history has things he never downloaded. He doesn’t use a VPN and no one in his house torrents but him. Also he primarily uses a seedbox. Confusing lol.
Oh he uses T-Mobile home internet so prob shares a public IP with more than a usual ISP
Maybe it's because of CGNAT, his IP is being shared between multiple networks
Yeah makes sense for 5g home internet
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
What did your transition to Usenet look like? I just transferred from torrenting to Soulseek myself but it isn’t cutting it
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.
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.
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
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
I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.
The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it's probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the URL and generate the preview, since it's different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0
Just fun to notice I guess.
What interface/app are you using?
I assume some instance's don't have a front-end with URL previewing, but I can see it on my instance's alternate front-end (Alexandrite), and also on dbzer0's default layout.
Thanks for the link! I lost this a while ago and I was loathe to find it. It comes around, doesn’t it? 😊
I accidentally clicked on one of the similar IPs links without realizing and someone with that ip happened to have gotten some of the same stuff I did. I was briefly quite worried.
Nah, most probably this IP, since it is close to yours, was also assigned to you at some point in time, while downloading or seeding said torrent
I have a static IP and I didn't recognize the stuff after the top few things.
Just checked my own and was surprised nothing came up. I'd have thought I would have downloaded legit torrents from Ubuntu or Archive.org at the very least.
I don't use a VPN nor I bother with one, I download movie torrents all the time (5 this week already) and the list is completely empty. I do have dynamic IP but ir usually only changes after I restart my router, which I haven't done for a month now.
Private trackers?
Nope, never used a private tracker before (forgot to add this). The site just seems innacurate.
I'm fairly sure my ISP is dynamic by default, I remember a neighbour having to pay extra for a static IP for a camera networking issue.
In the article for NordVPN it states that Port Forwarding doesn't work when using NordVPN.
ya it only works for proton
Thanks!
I use Windscribe. I initially used it because the free version which gives you 10GB per month was enough for me. Then there was a deal on a lifetime subscription ages ago that I got for like $15.
If anyone wants a year subscription to Speedify VPN, DM me and I'll get you a key I got in a Humble Bundle years ago that I never used.
Just a little disclaimer: windscribe cannot be trusted for any other use than torrenting
Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this
It's just that it's a random company. And they have a free tier which is a red flag. Use well-known reputable businesses when your privacy really matters
They are no more or less reputable than more well known providers. Which providers are you comparing it to? Please provide some sort of source for what you are saying.
Put one in the win column for Surfshark. (and a tip of the hat to TopCashBack, who is rebating me 80-90% of my recent 2 year renewal)
It's probably not a honeypot, but if I was the president of Warner Bros or Disney, I sure would want to set up a website that gathered IP addresses of people that probably download pirated media, or better yet, confirm that they did indeed download my product.
Well, too late for me I guess. Think I should add a warning?
I've heard you're not supposed to use tor and a vpn, but I'm no expert.
Someone else who uses the same VPN as I is really into butt stuff. I have to question their commitment to 480p though.
Could be worse. Someone sharing my IP is into really freaky stuff like "kubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso"
23.10? Non LTS?? What a disgusting freak!
Really tame vanilla stuff over here, I'm seeing debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Kubuntu? Whore.
Sometimes quantity is more important than quality. Hard drives ain't free.
But hard-ons are apparently.
"Son i could really care less about what you're watching but why in gods name are you watching it in low definition??" 😆
Butts, sisters, and breeding for the VPN IP I tried out!
I love this website. It's usually pretty accurate, except for..
Two big hard monster cocks pumped up Marilyn Crystal gaping ass & pussy FS033 sd.mp4
MyDaughtersHotFriend.23.06.07.Freya.Von.Doom.XXX.1080p.HEVC.x265.PRT[XvX]
I think I'd remember those...
It can show things that you've never downloaded if your ISP assigns a dynamic or shared IP. So it means some of your neighbors are into that kind of thing.
I selfhost stuff, so same IP for over a year.
Do you have kids?
They clearly have a daughter who has a hot friend, can't you read?
I don't, but if I did, why would they stop at just 2? I wouldn't raise a quitter!
You think you'd remember a thing like that...
I Know What You Download From A Select Few Public Trackers We Monitor
And this is why - all together now - "An IP is not an ID". They don't know what you've downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren't useful, alone.
Meanwhile me, who is behind so many layers of badly configured ISP NAT that there's no way anyone knows exactly what computer is downloading what: 😈
My fellow Windscribe VPN users are downloading some freaky shit.
Some guy on Nord downloaded "FacialAbuse E918 MILFs Cervix Gets Dilated And Sucks In Breeding Batter XXX 1080p HEVC x265 PRT[XvX]" >.>
Personally I feel that E933 is where the series really hit its stride
Must be the server you are connecting to. Most of mine is not porn like Last Week Tonight and the stuff that is porn is pretty vanilla stuff like Hookup Hotshots and Kinky Family.
Home internet was empty. Mobile internet has a few Marvel movies and shit like that. VPN has child porn.
Feels pretty icky to share the same ip as some people downloading those lame ass movies
So they're giving you a magnet link to child porn? Nice. Sue them.
The right answer is indeed in the comments. Let them sue me for downloading before I go pay for helping pedos out
How bizarre, none of the items on the list were actually things I downloaded, and none of the things I downloaded were on the list.
Same for me... I wonder what's going on? ~/s~
probably your ISP doing funky things
Public perception isn't aware of the dynamic and changing nature of most IP addresses.
Once you are though it's easy to see why the site might not work or even show incorrect results.
Lol it's blank.
Mine was full of stuff, all of it incorrect. Which I assume means my VPN is doing its job lol
This legitimately is only showing me Linux ISOs... Huh... Guess I'm good to go then!
I've been using mullvad for a few years—since PIA got bought out—and would recommend it if you're concerned about trust.
So, using a VPN doesn't actually eliminate all possibility of being tracked. All you're doing is replacing who can potentially see all of your data, from your ISP to the VPN provider, so trust is actually a pretty important factor.
When I switched the consensus at the time was that mullvad was the most true to its privacy statement, i.e. trustworthy. A lot of other vpns are cheaper or have more bells and whistles, but have histories of data breaches or scandals, are based in countries with weak privacy/strong surveillance laws, or are owned by companies that may have an interest in the customers data (like with the PIA acquisition I mentioned).
Mullvad too has had a few incidents where they were served court orders to provide data to the police, but iirc no data was ever actually given up. Plus, they allow a bunch of different privacy-centric payment methods, including just sending cash in an envelope.
I'd recommend taking a look at some more recent discussions comparing VPNs but I think considering mullvad is a good place to start.
For what it's worth, I opted to wait until I had my first issue with PIA after the buyout to switch and it just never really happened. I've remained on PIA for my sea-sailing needs, and still haven't had an ISP email or other problem with them, other than the client being a little janky on occasion.
I'm not an active advocate or anything, but my experience is that they're still good enough, even years after the acquisition. Perhaps they're using the data for something behind the scenes, but it's cheap and keeps my ISP off my back. I'd at least still consider it in the "good enough for this purpose" category.
It is always a joy to see what my virtual neighbors download... Some have a very refined... Taste.
*Results my vary in accuracy due to the nature of dynamic, Shared, or incorrectly assigned IP Addresses.
Also
*Results only included from Public trackers, private trackers do not show up.
the results for me are hilarious, who knew people in my general area downloaded so much porn... and... weird porn at that
it's literally only porn, who the heck torrents porn?
some of the most hilariously sounding things on that list:
::: spoiler very nsfw
Just when I think nothing can surprise me anymore.
Surrounded by Randals. --> NSFW language.
People with very specific tastes, apparently.
Sites like these are always useless, they never showed jack shit for me. Because I don't use public trackers I stick with private ones and those stupid Bots don't have access to private trackers
Any suggestions for good private trackers?
There are plenty of good ones out there, but be ready to invest a lot of time getting into them. The accounts I have I have had for over 10 years and it took probably a good 2 to 3 years to actually get into those better places. You have to actually build up a reputation of maintaining good ratio at smaller sites and get invited by a member. It's a pain in the ass but it's also worth it, way better content, way better speeds
Try to find a place with open registration or someone whose got a spare invite. Ive managed to get into a couple. But to get into the better private trackers it takes time building up your intro private tracker accounts.
I’ll admit, this spooked me, but for different reasons than the OP and most comments.
I didn’t recognize any of the downloads, even though I have a publicly routable static IP and don’t use a VPN (I have a domain and self host so I know my IP hast changed in years).
I use exclusively private trackers, and nothing I’ve actually downloaded showed up, and the things that did were sporadic—one every couple days or so, first/last seen times identical, random torrents. I started asking myself if I had a rogue device in my network, so I checked logs and stats—nothing unusual (I think…I hope…hard to tell sometimes).
I looked more into how this site tracks peers, and it seems they have different levels of confidence. Their first API tier (peer API) is a “best guess” and this is based on listening to the DHT and PeX networks for their known torrents. I’m guessing their website uses this or a combination of this with their other APIs. I looked at my torrent config and saw I hadn’t disabled DHT/PeX and had a couple idle public torrents.
Not positive on this, but I think there can be false positives if your torrent box participates in DHT/PeX even if it doesn’t actually download said torrents. Can anyone confirm this?
Lol somebody using the same VPN as me downloaded a 275 GB collection of some porn star's videos... 5 hours in the future
(I know about time zones, don't @ me)
Being behind IPv6 CGNAT mean I see other's people downloads too with "my" ip
Does CGNAT protect from ISP letters?
Because for all the pain it causes me, it should at least be useful for something
I've never pirated anything, of course, but I also never got a letter since I was switched to CGNAT
I can see hundreds of downloads and none are mine lol
It also thinks I'm in North America when I'm in Australia (currently no VPN to view it), which is the first site that put me outside the country
I don't use a VPN and the list that comes up for me here isn't remotely accurate
It says mine is a static IP when it's not. And shows some downloads that I don't even know.
Dynamic IP for the win!
Heads up, this website doesn't get data on stuff you download from private trackers, only public.
Website is blank for me. I guess that just confirms my suspicions that a VPN would be a waste of money for me personally
I suspect they can only track certain public torrents
Same here.
Cool. The government is incompetent and tech illiterate here so I'm safe anyway. It's like running from a bear, I just have to outrun the others running from it.
There are people who pirate stuff from telegram using their mobile numbers, so I'm fine.
Telegram is encrypted.
not the group chats
The account details aren't in public servers.
It's empty. Good.
Same
TIL I download tantra, kama sutra and yoni massage books/epubs
Great to see the IP scrambling works as it is supposed to
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
Damn that's a shady website
Christ, that's really creepy. Starting to regret sharing this but I guess the awareness is good?
I just recently started running Bitmagnet, a DHT crawler. Let me tell you huwhat now, that just made me laugh so hard I had pee almost come out.
wdym?
It had a lot of results for basically every type of torrent you could imagine
AirVPN cuz I dont know any other with port forwarding thats cheap like that
I haven't used torrents for years, and it's showing stuff. Not on a VPN currently, and it's showing the wrong location (a bit outside my city).
Anyone know why?
Probably because you have a dynamic IP so it shows torrents from other people.
The IP location in my experience is always very incorrect
If you would like a more technical explanation search for CG-NAT. It allows ISP's to share a single static public facing IP with several customers at once.
If you had a true static IP that never changed you've only see results about torrents downloaded using your router.
Nothing for me thanks to real debrid
Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.
The folks on similar IPs to me really like porn.
I’m on Nord. I know a lot of folks on here diss it, but I’ve been mostly happy with it.
Honest question, why do people diss on Nord? (I'm also happy with Nord)
Their aggressive, misleading and clickbait ads, particularly as YouTube sponsorships. From my experience the product is fine, but the ads make it seem like their covering up for something.
Adding to this, there’s probably a general feeling that, especially with publicly traded companies (which Nord isn’t… yet), profit motive will inevitably cause a company to make decisions that don’t align with its customer’s best interests. The idealist in me thinks it’s possible for a company to be profitable without being shitty towards its customers. The cynic in me thinks there’s probably more profit in being shitty.
That said, profit keeps companies in business. If you’re getting it for free, you’re either the product, pirating it, or relying on others to keep it going. I won’t say paying for it guarantees future availability and development, but that profit motive also motivates continuing development. Kind of a double edged sword, there.
I'm on Nord too and it has been the best for getting around regional restrictions. Mullvad looks trustworthy but there were sites I couldn't access.
Hmm I had my buddy go to this and he claims his download history has things he never downloaded. He doesn’t use a VPN and no one in his house torrents but him. Also he primarily uses a seedbox. Confusing lol.
Oh he uses T-Mobile home internet so prob shares a public IP with more than a usual ISP
Maybe it's because of CGNAT, his IP is being shared between multiple networks
Yeah makes sense for 5g home internet
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
What did your transition to Usenet look like? I just transferred from torrenting to Soulseek myself but it isn’t cutting it
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.
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.
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
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
I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.
The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it's probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the URL and generate the preview, since it's different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0
Just fun to notice I guess.
What interface/app are you using?
I assume some instance's don't have a front-end with URL previewing, but I can see it on my instance's alternate front-end (Alexandrite), and also on dbzer0's default layout.
Thanks for the link! I lost this a while ago and I was loathe to find it. It comes around, doesn’t it? 😊
I accidentally clicked on one of the similar IPs links without realizing and someone with that ip happened to have gotten some of the same stuff I did. I was briefly quite worried.
Nah, most probably this IP, since it is close to yours, was also assigned to you at some point in time, while downloading or seeding said torrent
I have a static IP and I didn't recognize the stuff after the top few things.
Just checked my own and was surprised nothing came up. I'd have thought I would have downloaded legit torrents from Ubuntu or Archive.org at the very least.
I don't use a VPN nor I bother with one, I download movie torrents all the time (5 this week already) and the list is completely empty. I do have dynamic IP but ir usually only changes after I restart my router, which I haven't done for a month now.
Private trackers?
Nope, never used a private tracker before (forgot to add this). The site just seems innacurate.
I'm fairly sure my ISP is dynamic by default, I remember a neighbour having to pay extra for a static IP for a camera networking issue.
Well they know what I downloaded but I dont really care . Is there anything my Canadian ISP can do ?
There's a small chance you'll get a letter with no follow-up.
Yay private trackers I guess.
I have no idea what any of this is, but Japanese Mom 2 (in Korean) sounds promising.
Lol it's showing a bunch of random shit.
Thing is, it's my phone's IP. I don't download anything on this thing.
That's really not how that works.
I don't understand your comment.
I have multiple torrents going right now and nothing shows up for me on the site
proton vpn and nord vpn are the ones i use. both are great but nord is faster
Nord doesn't support incoming NAT ports. Neither did Mullvad anymore for that matter. Does Proton?
it works for proton
https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding/
In the article for NordVPN it states that Port Forwarding doesn't work when using NordVPN.
ya it only works for proton
Thanks!
I use Windscribe. I initially used it because the free version which gives you 10GB per month was enough for me. Then there was a deal on a lifetime subscription ages ago that I got for like $15.
If anyone wants a year subscription to Speedify VPN, DM me and I'll get you a key I got in a Humble Bundle years ago that I never used.
Just a little disclaimer: windscribe cannot be trusted for any other use than torrenting
Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this
It's just that it's a random company. And they have a free tier which is a red flag. Use well-known reputable businesses when your privacy really matters
They are no more or less reputable than more well known providers. Which providers are you comparing it to? Please provide some sort of source for what you are saying.
@can Following for VPN revommendations.
There's plenty now.
Saved
Huh, my page is empty.
Put one in the win column for Surfshark. (and a tip of the hat to TopCashBack, who is rebating me 80-90% of my recent 2 year renewal)
It's probably not a honeypot, but if I was the president of Warner Bros or Disney, I sure would want to set up a website that gathered IP addresses of people that probably download pirated media, or better yet, confirm that they did indeed download my product.
Well, too late for me I guess. Think I should add a warning?
I've heard you're not supposed to use tor and a vpn, but I'm no expert.
https://support.torproject.org/faq/faq-5/
Where did they mention tor?
I guess they think torrent = tor?