Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Someone else who uses the same VPN as I is really into butt stuff. I have to question their commitment to 480p though.

And this is why - all together now - "An IP is not an ID". They don't know what you've downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren't useful, alone.

I Know What You Download From A Select Few Public Trackers We Monitor

Meanwhile me, who is behind so many layers of badly configured ISP NAT that there's no way anyone knows exactly what computer is downloading what: 😈

My fellow Windscribe VPN users are downloading some freaky shit.

Home internet was empty. Mobile internet has a few Marvel movies and shit like that. VPN has child porn.

Feels pretty icky to share the same ip as some people downloading those lame ass movies

Lol it's blank.

This legitimately is only showing me Linux ISOs... Huh... Guess I'm good to go then!

the results for me are hilarious, who knew people in my general area downloaded so much porn... and... weird porn at that

it's literally only porn, who the heck torrents porn?

some of the most hilariously sounding things on that list:

It is always a joy to see what my virtual neighbors download... Some have a very refined... Taste.

Lol somebody using the same VPN as me downloaded a 275 GB collection of some porn star's videos... 5 hours in the future

(I know about time zones, don't @ me)

Being behind IPv6 CGNAT mean I see other's people downloads too with "my" ip

I've been using mullvad for a few years—since PIA got bought out—and would recommend it if you're concerned about trust.

So, using a VPN doesn't actually eliminate all possibility of being tracked. All you're doing is replacing who can potentially see all of your data, from your ISP to the VPN provider, so trust is actually a pretty important factor.

When I switched the consensus at the time was that mullvad was the most true to its privacy statement, i.e. trustworthy. A lot of other vpns are cheaper or have more bells and whistles, but have histories of data breaches or scandals, are based in countries with weak privacy/strong surveillance laws, or are owned by companies that may have an interest in the customers data (like with the PIA acquisition I mentioned).

Mullvad too has had a few incidents where they were served court orders to provide data to the police, but iirc no data was ever actually given up. Plus, they allow a bunch of different privacy-centric payment methods, including just sending cash in an envelope.

I'd recommend taking a look at some more recent discussions comparing VPNs but I think considering mullvad is a good place to start.

*Results my vary in accuracy due to the nature of dynamic, Shared, or incorrectly assigned IP Addresses.

Also

*Results only included from Public trackers, private trackers do not show up.

Heads up, this website doesn't get data on stuff you download from private trackers, only public.

It says mine is a static IP when it's not. And shows some downloads that I don't even know.

Dynamic IP for the win!

I’ll admit, this spooked me, but for different reasons than the OP and most comments.

I didn’t recognize any of the downloads, even though I have a publicly routable static IP and don’t use a VPN (I have a domain and self host so I know my IP hast changed in years).

I use exclusively private trackers, and nothing I’ve actually downloaded showed up, and the things that did were sporadic—one every couple days or so, first/last seen times identical, random torrents. I started asking myself if I had a rogue device in my network, so I checked logs and stats—nothing unusual (I think…I hope…hard to tell sometimes).

I looked more into how this site tracks peers, and it seems they have different levels of confidence. Their first API tier (peer API) is a “best guess” and this is based on listening to the DHT and PeX networks for their known torrents. I’m guessing their website uses this or a combination of this with their other APIs. I looked at my torrent config and saw I hadn’t disabled DHT/PeX and had a couple idle public torrents.

Not positive on this, but I think there can be false positives if your torrent box participates in DHT/PeX even if it doesn’t actually download said torrents. Can anyone confirm this?

I don't use a VPN and the list that comes up for me here isn't remotely accurate

Website is blank for me. I guess that just confirms my suspicions that a VPN would be a waste of money for me personally

Cool. The government is incompetent and tech illiterate here so I'm safe anyway. It's like running from a bear, I just have to outrun the others running from it.

There are people who pirate stuff from telegram using their mobile numbers, so I'm fine.

AirVPN cuz I dont know any other with port forwarding thats cheap like that

It's empty. Good.

I haven't used torrents for years, and it's showing stuff. Not on a VPN currently, and it's showing the wrong location (a bit outside my city).

Anyone know why?

TIL I download tantra, kama sutra and yoni massage books/epubs

Great to see the IP scrambling works as it is supposed to

Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.

The folks on similar IPs to me really like porn.

I’m on Nord. I know a lot of folks on here diss it, but I’ve been mostly happy with it.

Apparently I downloaded the fate of the furious 4 hours ago on mobile data according to it?

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/

Damn that's a shady website

I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.

The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it's probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the generate the preview, since it's different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0

Just fun to notice I guess.

Hmm I had my buddy go to this and he claims his download history has things he never downloaded. He doesn’t use a VPN and no one in his house torrents but him. Also he primarily uses a seedbox. Confusing lol.

Oh he uses T-Mobile home internet so prob shares a public IP with more than a usual ISP

Nothing for me thanks to real debrid