Is BT over Tor still not recommened?
An increasing number of people are asking us about the recent paper coming out of Inria in...
It's been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?
It will never get recommended. It's bad for the network and bad for your privacy.
Can you please elaborate more on my next post? Thanks. https://lemmy.ml/post/7508828
Yes. It is better to use i2p for bittorrent. Now qbittorrent it is compatible.
Would you say this is better than using a VPN or just as good?
Better, because it is free and secure. And at same time you are torrenting, you are helping the network. But a downside, it is the speed and amount of peers you find is less compared to the clearnet. Also it is not the best option to surf the clearnet, tor is better at this.
Thanks. I was hoping 13 years will bring some improvements but sadly seems like not.
Always will be because of the way the two technologies work at a fundamental level.
Literally on the current download page:
Then I'm sorry for not reading carefully.
yes
It's never been recommended and it never was a good idea.
Yes.
Tldr.
Bt over tor is still not recommended
You could probably rent a seedbox or more generic service like an aws ecs instance and then download from the seedbox or s3 via tor.