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Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out by netheril96 on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:43AM (#33119957)
It’s quite easy to block Xunlei. First, they identify themselves in the connection. Second, no matter how much you upload to them, they always report zero progress.

The maintainers reject the proposal to block by client ID. But they never consider the second method.

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Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out by zaik on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:28PM (#33125140)
Both methods can be circumvented quite easily and it will happen, if Transmission were to implement this. It's a cat and mouse game you can't win.
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Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out by netheril96 on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:43PM (#33125333)
Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game. Anti censorship is a cat and mouse game. Anti fraud is a cat and mouse game. Anti spam is a cat and mouse game. I don’t see people giving up so easily on those problems.
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Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out by zaik on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:05PM (#33125574)
I can't think of any way to solve this problem if a majority of clients in a swarm is malicious.
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Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out by sounds on Saturday October 08, 2022 @12:59AM (#33129895)
The swarm eventually gets abandoned as new users can't reach 100% completion?
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