I don’t live in the US, so my ISP doesn’t really seem to care what I torrent, but the megathread vehemently recommends to always use one. Since VPNs aren’t cheap and I’m on a strict budget (wouldn’t pirate otherwise), is it really that dangerous to torrent without one?
You can check if something appears on https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
Oh wow, I have mullvad VPN and apparently it works perfectly. The list is just completely empty with the vpn off.
How do you find mullvad? like in terms of speed/price/tracking
All of those are great. They just removed port forwarding but barely anyone else has it anyways
@SpaceCadet2000 holy shit i didnt know this existed! also if i see something here that i didn’t torrent does that mean someone in my apartment be torrenting?
Yes, if you have a static IP address. If you have a dynamic IP address you can just be seeing the other people who previously had that IP address. It will depend on your ISP.
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Someone in my neighbourhood appears to be downloading an archive of reddit: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/6c346a1e2c52dc45a86987b7316b2ae72fd66e95629bea955d6e04bd32a6f6e4c77b52a26b1c583c0b5472035f39f34b/reddit
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@Hyolobrika @lamp @KingPyrox @SpaceCadet2000 @Alextheacceptable I am a very boring man
@sjb @Hyolobrika @KingPyrox @SpaceCadet2000 @Alextheacceptable aw shit lemmy dont show the images!