I’m considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?
- idkman ( @idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English27•1 year ago
Idk, i never gave aa fuck.
In general that might be a recipe for better living 99.9% of the time, yet for the paranoid it remains a hard art to master!
- idkman ( @idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
are you really that paranoid? then use I2P.
- bookworm ( @bookworm@feddit.nl ) English23•1 year ago
I wouldn’t join a private tracker that requires me to expose my real IP. It doesn’t sound serious at all.
Thanks, still some apparently major ones require it, might be the case that I need to keep looking for alternatives.
- SillyIce ( @SillyIce@lemmy.ml ) English16•1 year ago
Just use Usenet.
- Mugmoor ( @Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
This. Torrenting is fine, but I’m more than happy to pay a small fee for faster speeds and an encrypted connection.
- Vaseline ( @vaseline@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Is there an eli5 to start using it?
- 🅿🆄🅽🅲🅷 🅴🅽🅴🆁🅶🆈 ( @PunchEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•1 year ago
Eweka.nl as usenet subscription. Sabnzbd as usenet downloader (this is where you add the nzb files)
Some forum for Usenet files to download. If you want some, dm me.
That’s basically all you need
- TornadoValley ( @TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English12•1 year ago
Private trackers really aren’t masters of op sec. They thrive through security through obscurity which the worst kind of “security”. And generally even fail at that (PTP, BTN, RED, OPS are so widely known)
That said I use them and I also don’t use a VPN so I just take that risk. It’s up to you
IP2 definitely sounds intriguing as truly (or close to) anonymous peer to peer
- pokemaster787 ( @pokemaster787@vlemmy.net ) English10•1 year ago
I’ve never had one that required an interview, but my primary private tracker requires you to log into the webpage not on a VPN. They still suggest heavily that any torrenting is done on a VPN though.
If the owners of the site are competent, they’re gonna hash your IP for their logs and not store the actual IP. Hashing is a one-way process, they won’t be able to reconstruct your IP from it. If they’re storing your raw IP, probably stay away. (Honestly, you can’t do nearly as much damage with an IP address as people think, but it’d be a hint to way worse security practices elsewhere)
Thanks. Question is: how can one know the security practices behind the scenes? I guess it’s a matter of trust and luck after all!
- Pulp ( @Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
Trust. No way there are trackers that have been audited
- ttt3ts ( @ttt3ts@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•1 year ago
I did mine at an Airbnb. It is a home address but not mine. Make sure you’re on a resedential IP though. You can often tell them your using a VPN and there by never share a real IP.
I have never trusted private tracker security who usally depend to security through obscurity which is BS.
- liliumstar ( @liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
You can definitely join one that doesn’t mind you signing up through a VPN. There are a handful that are picky, of course. I’m mostly fine with those that do have my real IP logged. The reality is that they can’t prove it was me because someone from my IP happened to sign up to some site months or even years ago.
- Hubi ( @Hubi@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
Your home IP is most likely just used for the initial signup. You can torrent via a VPN afterwards.
- orsetto ( @orsetto@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Do you have a static ip? If that’s not the case, than you have nothing to worry about
- ttt3ts ( @ttt3ts@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•1 year ago
The ISP logs what IPs are assigned when.
- orsetto ( @orsetto@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Yeah but trying ti join a private tracker isn’t an illegal activity, right?
- biscuit ( @biscuit@lemdro.id ) English1•1 year ago
I’ve used private trackers for 13 years, including BTN & PTP, and never gotten a letter or anything.