• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    Don’t use uTorrent. Use transmission, qbittorent, or deluge.

    Or skip torrents entirely and use soulseek. Or Usenet.

    But not utorrent.

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      4 days ago

      Be aware that soulseek is crazy insecure. Plaintext passwords, unencrypted plaintext traffic. Any attacker can see who you are, what you do and can even change what you send

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        2 days ago

        Yea I feel like it should be used behind a VPN. With unique credentials (as should be there norm on any platform). And maybe, from what you’re telling me, on a spare PC if possible.

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, and additionally you shouldnt do anything else on that VPN

          And expect that any file you downloaded might have been modified, so check everything for malware! You could also use ffmpeg in a temporary VM and remux everything to be sure there is no weird stuff embedded in media containers. Niche threat but this could work

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      18 days ago

      Seriously. You quit using some streaming service because they gave you ads, so you use a bittorrent client that has ads?

      Plenty of good ones out there that don’t. Open source qbittorrent being my personal favorite.