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Private trackers are a scurge.
Data wants to be free.
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But you can't when the swarm is full of super-seeders. There's tons of anecdotes about how crappy private trackers are in this thread.
I was on what.cd back in the day. I've been through it all.
Private trackers fucking suck.
I sort of agree. When everyone is trying to seed to up their ratio, getting stuff is easy and fast. But maintaining your ratio is a nightmare. The place is essentially starved of downloaders because even people who want stuff can't get it for fear of ruining their ratio. The only reason I had a positive ratio on what.cd was that they occasionally had freeleech days where you could download freely and only uploads counted. On those days I would just get the most popular torrents on the site and upload the shit out of them.
While these problems exist in any private tracker, I do still miss what.cd.
I'm on a few private trackers, never paid a penny towards any of them, and have high ratios in all of them
It did take me a little work and spent some time seeding stuff I didn't really want but I got there with a shitty home connection (my connection is pretty good now but I built those ratios with dog shit speeds)
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You're a hypocrite if you champion FOSS and private-anything at the same time.
Free. Open. Libre. No lords. No masters. No tracking.
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