glad someone else is feeling this. it’s really strange and depressing seeing so many good things collapse within the year. and we’re getting no wins whatsoever
Well, I count finding Lemmy as an absolute win
Federated piracy isn’t just next, I’d argue it’s almost the only solution.
Why, what happened? Did some big piracy site get shut down?
Honestly I’m somewhere between “average person” and “ultra nerd” so the fact that I am finally too fed up with reddit and leaving for mastodon and lemmy makes me think more people will do likewise. I call that a win.
The “enshitification” of the web recently feels almost coordinated. Factually; it is not coordinated; it’s just bad luck.
Still stinks though. Society still has not learned that allowing capitalism to run rampantly unchecked is generally causing these issues.
Even within a month
I dunno. Reddit has been pretty toxic ever since 2016. Browsing Lemmy instead is undoubtedly good for my blood pressure.
What was Mullvad port forwarding about?
They deleted the feature because of pedos 🤮
Pedos, COVID, war et al is an excuse. After the recent raid, I believe that to avoid becoming a honeypot, they cut off the most risky source of activities - P2P torrenting. My basis of this claim are three things – torrent traffic is colossal, and torrents are mostly used for piracy (Mullvad evading DMCA issues) and ProtonVPN free tier does the exact same thing with banning P2P torrenting.
Do you know a not sus VPN that supports p2p torrenting? I 🏴☠️ tens of games a month and recently our fascist government just passed a draconian anti piracy law, what VPN should I look to?
There are only 4 left, with each having various degrees of issues.
- AirVPN: the only one with multiple ports for forwarding, but no logging policy is an issue
- IVPN: the strongest VPN option but with only 1 port for forwarding
- ProtonVPN: good option overall but no anonymous payment option
- Windscribe: good option but with limited port forwarding and an unfortunate incident in 2019 (no customer data was compromised though)
All I want to say is we have limited time as pirates unless an underground net is established that is not leech-y like private trackers are. Give or take, less than two years, being optimistic as a small scale data curator/hoarder.
What about Mullvad?
Mullvad has stopped providing port forwarding, which means torrenting can leak IP often enough to endanger users.
Edit: I made a minor mistake in a hurry, port forwarding affects torrenting in that you connect to less seeds/peers, although you could still bind it to your torrent client.
Can you explain a bit more, if you don’t mind? From what I’ve read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don’t see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I’ve never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I’m just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I’m not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.
Would you move to usenet to no longer use torrents?
Not sure, I have data hoarded so many things which I can stick to, combined with Russian pirate portals and good ol VirusTotal and KVRT offline scans. Usenet is way down the consideration list.
Windscribe is also based in Canada - I don’t trust them for many reasons. AzireVPN seems good too albeit a bit expensive.
Personally I’m getting AirVPN once my Surfshark subscription ends (I know, it’s awful, but I already payed for it 🙄)
In the past I have used BtGuard.
You are better off getting a seedbox from some place in Europe than trying to deal with slow vpn speeds.
Here’s a link, if anyone wanted to read more: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
Wait till the upcoming Imgur purge recreates an ImageShack/TinyPic 2.0 situation.
Purge? Is this about the porn ban, or something else?
Images that will be purged slowly include any images uploaded by non registered users as well. May 15, 2023 was 2 weeks ago, so the TOS is in effect already. Enjoy the collapse.
Oh man that sucks.
I didn’t realise RARBG had shut down. Such a shame, that was a great site for torrents.
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Me over here trying to figure out how to get i2p running in qbittorrent so I don’t need a VPN anymore.
That’s possible?
Yes it is! I did manage to figure it out. There is a guide that was posted on reddit. /r/i2p look for the recent qbittorrent thread there. The download for the guide is a torrent too.
Thats not exactly how that works. You can only connect to people seeding on i2p network. You can’t just connect to clearnet seeders from i2p
Its good that qbitt added support for it but torrenting over i2p is not new, i2psnark is built into java version and biglybt has supported i2p for years. The issue is that most seeders dont cross-seed.
Also if the guide on reddit is still going to need a vpn. Look at step 26, you are uploading to clearnet.
In order to not use a vpn you need to only connect via i2p and you are then severely limited in your use.
I would suggest just grabbing the info hash of a clearnet torrent and pasting it into i2psnark to see if it exists on i2p. If it does great! And seed that shit (you won’t need a vpn to do that) but i2p will definitely not completely replace clearnet torrenting
I didn’t want to connect to clearnet folks. I2P only mode in qbittorrent. I just prefer qbittorrent as opposed to i2psnark. Obviously the issue is adoption and availability of torrents on i2p. I’ll continue to seed new stuff on there very often though. Maybe even see if I can get RSS setup on qbittorrent for i2p as well for automatic downloading/seeding.
I see. Hopefully this drives adoption
*RARBG
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They shut down. Some of the staff died due to covid, some shoot each other in the Ukraine vs Russia war and the remain ones are kinda tired of it. Also hosing has became more expensive due to inflation and they aren’t able to afford that anymore
At least they weren’t raided
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It has been hard week fer us salty sea dogs
haha
