I wonder why these services don't generate vanity TOR domains. I can generate about 21 TOR addresses beginning with "zlib" per second and it would make bookmarks so much more recognisable if they weren't completely random.

I know relying on names to recognise onion addresses is unsafe, but so is following random links. Why not add at least a little recognisability to the official URL?

> Why not add at least a little recognisability to the official URL?

Because it doesn't help at all. The first four letters of an onion URL are unimportant because they can be chosen with little effort, as you describe.

Following random links and following random links that start with "zlib" is the same thing.

It's obviously not a security benefit, it's just nice to have a little branding so you have some idea what the link you're clicking is pretending to be

As you said, it's effectively the same thing, so why not do the tiniest amount of effort and generate some slightly indicative address?

Because then someone will duplicate the UI and generate a new vanity address and start to do bad stuff under their good name.

How is that any different from the random character address? I can generate a random address and pretend to be another website and you won't know the difference because all you'll remember about the address is "a while bunch if random letters".

Yea, I guess a stupid computer user would probably fall for it either way, so I admit defeat on this front.

My argument was going to be along the lines of: "a stupid computer user who knows the real address starts with zlib would be tricked easier by another zlib address than if the real site were random, where they might check more thouroughly that they were on the right site..." before being fooled, anyways, probably.

How does one actually download this many torrent files? It feels quite difficult to do.

That's just about 80. Any client can handle that. Use a watch directory or a client that allows to add *.torrent or drag them all to a GUI and hold down Enter or sumthin ;-)

qBittorrent can handle at least 1500 torrents fine, try that. Source? My desktop instance seeding right now.

Many Linux command line torrent clients can be told to load "*.torrent"