It’s been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?
It will never get recommended. It’s bad for the network and bad for your privacy.
Can you please elaborate more on my next post? Thanks. https://lemmy.ml/post/7508828
I answered there. Not sure why you open a completely new post for that follow-up question?! You could have asked just here.
I thought it is better as the focus is different: one is about “Is a blog post written 13 years ago still valid today”, the other one is “If BT protocol leaks information anyways, why VPN is acceptable but other’s not.” That’s the reasoning.
Yes. It is better to use i2p for bittorrent. Now qbittorrent it is compatible.
Would you say this is better than using a VPN or just as good?
Better, because it is free and secure. And at same time you are torrenting, you are helping the network. But a downside, it is the speed and amount of peers you find is less compared to the clearnet. Also it is not the best option to surf the clearnet, tor is better at this.
Thanks. I was hoping 13 years will bring some improvements but sadly seems like not.
Tor is not meant for torrenting, so improvements to torrenting on Tor will never be made.
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I don’t understand what the down votes are for. Disagreement? What’s wrong in hoping for improvements in a 13 years gap? I understand and agree that BT over Tor is bad, but two doesn’t conflict.
hoping for improvements
There have been improvements, just on the fronts you haven’t been looking for. Also, if I am correct, torrenting over Tor would be painfully slow compared to normally doing it or via a VPN. It is not worth the hassle.
The way it was worded might be seen as improvements to torrenting on Tor instead of improvements to i2p.
I think they meant the former, but if there were downvotes that’s still weird
Always will be because of the way the two technologies work at a fundamental level.
Literally on the current download page:
Then I’m sorry for not reading carefully.
yes
It’s never been recommended and it never was a good idea.
Yes.
Tldr.
Bt over tor is still not recommended
You could probably rent a seedbox or more generic service like an aws ecs instance and then download from the seedbox or s3 via tor.
