Just a PSA that I2P exists if you want to try out anonymous torrenting. Head over to I2P for questions on how to set it up.

I won’t answer questions that could get me into legal trouble, but I’d be happy to help with more generic I2P things.

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    1 year ago

    I know about I2P for some time now and I really like the pitch, but I never got around of actually trying it sadly.

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      1 year ago

      What makes it different is that I2P uses something called garlic routing to anonymize you and everyone participating in the swarm. So nobody can tell what you’re downloading, except those in the same swarm, but they can’t tell who you are because your id in the swarm isn’t connected to your IP-address.

      Other than that it’s pretty much normal torrenting. Many clients such as BiglyBT already support I2P.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t use qbittorent I’m afraid, but someone created a tutorial for it if you know how to download from a torrent hash it’s here: Torrent hash = 3F1D51095F9B116739172C1BCED149ACF2B10692

      If not then there’s a built in torrent client called I2PSnark in the java version. It’s rather basic but it’ll get the job done.

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            1 year ago

            but it’s working only on applications that i need, right(torrent client for example)?

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                  No, not system wide by default. Change your browser proxy to localhost:4444 and you should be able to reach i2p-sites like http://planet.i2p or the bittorrent tracker (linked in the I2P sub). Changing that will make use of the outproxies so it’ll kind of work like TOR.