It’s been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?

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It will never get recommended. It’s bad for the network and bad for your privacy.

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Can you please elaborate more on my next post? Thanks. https://lemmy.ml/post/7508828

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I answered there. Not sure why you open a completely new post for that follow-up question?! You could have asked just here.

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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.

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Yes. It is better to use i2p for bittorrent. Now qbittorrent it is compatible.

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Would you say this is better than using a VPN or just as good?

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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.

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Thanks. I was hoping 13 years will bring some improvements but sadly seems like not.

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Tor is not meant for torrenting, so improvements to torrenting on Tor will never be made.

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Did you eat paint chips as a child?

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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.

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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.

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The way it was worded might be seen as improvements to torrenting on Tor instead of improvements to i2p.

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Always will be because of the way the two technologies work at a fundamental level.

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Literally on the current download page:

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Then I’m sorry for not reading carefully.

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yes

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