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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by nopit on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:23PM (#13423948)
The torrents still contain unencrypted http tracker urls, no thanks.
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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by beardog on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:02AM (#13424097)
Most if not all relatively modern clients support DHT and other peer locating methods. Just copy the info hash on the torrent results page & paste into your client. HTTP trackers help find peers who are more firewalled I believe, and also potentially speed up the start of downloads.
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Re:Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent s... by eltoozero on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:28PM (#13423966)
Use a hosted seedbox then?

For many people this isn't really a problem, seedbox or not.

For others it's not exactly their problem but yea someone upstream may get a "letter".

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