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I don’t since I live in a third world country. Can seed at 1Gbps with no warnings whatsoever, 20€ monthly
So, that’s a “no, I don’t use an anonymous network”?
The thing about second/third world countries is that if they don’t even care about what you download, they still care about what kind of resources you visit. So, you still have to use various tools for censorship circumvention, and conventional vpn services generally don’t work. Thus people often use tor, i2p, etc, but not for downloading (although tor, for instance, often doesn’t work without bridges in such countries). And to be honest, downloading via tor is a very bad idea, that’s not how it should be used.
I don’t since I live in a third world country. Can seed at 1Gbps with no warnings whatsoever, 20€ monthly
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I don’t since I don’t live in a third world country.
Give your country more credit if you have a 1Gbps connection and it doesn’t enforce draconian idiotic laws. Just out of curiosity, can you name the country?
I would guess Hungary. It has fast internet, but it also has idiotic laws.
I don’t like DDL over Tor as it is not really designed for heavy bandwidth. I2P could be the future once more users start using it, right now BiglyBT can crossover on the clearnet and I2P.
IIRC TOR is OK with a stream from one source (DDLs fit the bill), but isn’t made for handling many streams at once. I2P is good for that --> torrenting over I2P doesn’t stress the network as much.
I2P needs more nodes though. It’s much slower than TOR
Thank you for the correction, it is true that a DDL is a single connection usually, where as torrenting is many connections and that is what’s bad for Tor.
Is TOR good for direct downloads? Isn’t it pretty slow?
TOR now has quite some big nodes. If you’re lucky and your path goes through them, you can hit speeds of around 1MB/s - I know I have.
Plus, with a small linux box that downloads the stuff for you overnight, it’s not really an issue. You can use JDownloader with TOR as a proxy. Add links to it to download, go to bed and wake up with everything downloaded 🫰
I could not live with just 1MB/s down…
1MB/s is not enough? Most films are <1GB. That’s <1000s / ~17minutes to download a film. Well enough to watch a few TED talks, read some ArsTechnica articles, or read a single Salon article. Hell, it’s good enough to talk a short walk outside, fill up the dishwasher, tidy up the room a little, or lift a few weights.
Different priorities, I guess.
Most films are <1GB.
Do you watch pixel slideshows?
Looking at my library… I have 6662 movies.
77 movies are above 50GB…
236 are above 25GB
631 are above 10GB
1072 are above 5GB
3021 are above 2GB
5896 are above 1.5GB
6675 above 1GB (more files than I have unique movies in plex due to doubles/editions/nonimported)
11 files less than 1GB…Are you only downloading 720p? How the hell are you ending up finding movies that are less than 1GB and are still quality enough to actually watch?
720p < 1GB, 1080 < 2GB. The biggest film I have is 4k HDR at 8GB.
Still, between ~17 minutes and 35 minutes of download time are completely alright for me. I have loads of time and only watch stuff about 1-2 times a week.
How the hell are you ending up finding movies that are less than 1GB and are still quality enough to actually watch?
Search for something, sort by number of seeders, download the top file around the size you want.
Also remembering uploaded names helps (yify comes to mind)
I understand that, my point was that at 1080p and less than 1GB of storage… that bitrate must be trash and virtually unwatchable.
Edit: To my point… A lot of my anime episodes are like 300-900MB… but those are ~25 minutes… To find a 90+ minute movie at 1GB… that’s an estimated 2/3 of the quality of an anime image which is usually easier to compress. I just can’t see a normal movie being 1GB and not looking like480p that was poorly upscaled to 1080p… like a camrip.
No, that’s really slow.
I agree if it’s the max speed of you internet line, sure. But I grew up with 56k and didn’t have >1Mb/s (notice Mb, not MB) until I left for university, so waiting for content is totally normal. Especially if that content can wait and if that speed is due to security. If I were at work and had to wait 20 minutes to download a docker image, that would indeed be unacceptable.
Sure but you didn’t have to download 100MB javascript files and 500 FHD images on each website.
😂 true
Well, we like quality on our server, everything 4k (if it exists) we recently decided to not take remux since they are often >100GB. But 20GB to 40GB is the norm for our movie files. You gotta use that 10Gb/s up line at our server for something, lol. (I know downscaling 4k down if on bad mobile network is very heavy computing, but in those cases we use the save offline feature of plex)
no, 97% via streaming http and the rest is via streaming torrent directly
Been doing some DC++ over Yggdrasil with good success
Yggdrasil
Doesn’t seem to be anonymous (emphasis mine)
Is Yggdrasil anonymous?
No, it is not a goal of the Yggdrasil project to provide anonymity. Direct peers over the Internet will be able to see your IP address and may be able to use this information to determine your location or identity. Multicast-discovered peerings on the same network will typically expose your device MAC address. Other nodes on the network may be able to discern some information about which nodes you are peered with.
I hope you aren’t relying on it for anonymity.
I should note that I’m not relying on Yggdrasil for anonymity inside the network, rather more for anonymity towards observations from outside the network. And also mostly anonymity towards what I’m communicating when observed from outside the network.
Understood. So, like torrents, anybody within the “swarm” would know what you’re accessing?
If you’re taking part in transmitting a torrent over Yggdrasil, then people you’ve peered with in the swarm will definitely see your Yggdrasil IP - which is based off of the encryption key you generate (and you can change whenever you wish) for the connection to the mesh.
Regarding obfuscation of what you’re accessing inside something like the bittorrent DHT, that could likely be done with multiple Yggdrasil connections and torrent clients - so each address only associates with one torrent, it’s just not a core feature of the network itself.The Yggdrasil network really isn’t meant to provide perfect internal anonymity between two directly communicating peers, it’s instead built to be an easy-to-use, end-to-end encrypted, mesh network - with great performance.
It’s there to protect the content and target of your communications from anyone beside you and said target, without adversely affecting the delivery of said content. Not to protect you from your communication target, though it can do a passable job at that too.My main use of Yggdrasil has actually been as an easily setup alternative route into NATed systems, seeing as I can easily hit 600Mbit and get below 15ms of latency over it, which I quite often use to run VNC or SSH (and SCP/rsync) over. And since the mesh can be established as long as you can reach a node, it becomes ridiculously easy to get a functional link over it.
Transmitting DC++ traffic without my ISP being able to detect any of that is just a bonus.
Define “anonymous”. I use Soulseek, but you need an account for that.
Anonymous as the source doesn’t know your real IP and intermediate nodes don’t know what you’re saying (encryption).
With I2P and TOR, only the entry nodes know your real IP, but they don’t know what you’re saying (thus don’t know what you’re accessing), and the target node or exit node doesn’t know who requested the data.
I often use Tribler for torrents. It’s a TOR-like system specialized into torrent, and does work well with any torrents. (I’ll put a warning that the system might not be totally safe against targetted attack, but it should be against standard complaint to ISP)
Yeah I seed some printable firearms files torrents over I2P, and seed other stuff I find on tracker2.postman.i2p