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Re:Webtor: Stream torrents online by tmd83 on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:35PM (#19401300)
So the extension implements a torrent downloader and video player together or it's something more sophisticated? There's no explanation of how it works so I'm curious.
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Re:Webtor: Stream torrents online by terrortrain on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:50PM (#19401509)
You don't need the extension.

I'm guessing a little bit, but this page almost certainly uses the web torrent project https://webtorrent.io/.

Basically, it's an implementation of the torrent protocol over webrtc.

The majority of torrent clients don't communicate with webrtc clients, but there are some that do (Like the official webtorrent client). So they act as a bridge between web page clients and regular torrent clients.

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