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| ▲ | wiredpancake 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| All of which could be solved via a VPN of Seedbox. The point being, my movements around the homepage aren't tracked and used for pushing more ads. My microphone isn't being recorded for AI training or recommendations algorithms. The intricate ways I use the platform isn't being sold to some third party data company. I just open the film, and it works.. Your IP address being logged in a bittorrent swarm is far less concerning to me than the 100 page privacy policy which explains how they will take rectal scans and sell them to cancer research agencies or something. |
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| ▲ | vgb2k18 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Fair point about it being less invasive than adtech sites, but my comment was just addressing the claim that piracy doesn't “track users and send a bunch of telemetry”.
Torrent-trackers broadcast ip-addresses, timestamps, and torrent metadata; even if you consider it minor or mitigated by VPNs/seedboxes. | |
| ▲ | A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I was going to say.. does not seem to show much. That said, fun idea and very privacy inspiring. |
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| ▲ | ncr100 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Privacy is undervalued. Your characteristics are you. Businesses already having that data allows them, specifically, to market their junk in a way they have an advantage over other businesses. It's imbalanced: it screws the economy, and can be used to influence you -- to show you information which encourages conformance/lowers diversity. Freedom of choice is diluted by unknown leaking of your personal characteristics. |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That has like a 50% precision rate for me. Around half of the reported torrents is stuff I've never seen. |
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| ▲ | FireBeyond 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, according to my router, my IP address hasn't changed in 8 months. But this site has me torrenting a bunch of anime, porn and Russian audiobooks ... while I was sitting on a beach last week in Hawaii. (And I know I'm not being used as an unwitting seeder). What's actually happening, it looks like, is it's finding any hits on the same Class C subnet as mine. This ends up more looking like a precursor for some "I know what you're downloading" bitcoin extortion. |
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| ▲ | PenguinCoder 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So don't use torrents. Usenet is still alive for this stuff. Though you need a indexer and Usenet subscription so it's a wash for privacy. |
