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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)

submitted 2 years ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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[-] Referable2424@lemdro.id 86 points 2 years ago

I2P is a P2P darknet. on tor the network is run by volenteers (~6000 nodes) while on I2P everyone on the nerwork is a node, and their are no built in exit nodes (in i2p their called outproxies). the official I2P router has a built in torrent client as well. like torrents the more people on i2p the faster the network, while the opposite is true for tor.

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