If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
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But is the statement correct? What’s the story behind uTorrent?
μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc.
That should be enough for any sane person. A proprietary bittorrent client is the worst joke i have heard in a while.
An adware whatever should also be avoided.
Yes. It stopped being good around 2010-2012 depending on who you ask. Unfortunately there are still plenty of old blog posts praising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent
The parent company, bittorrent Inc got purchased by a serial crypto scammer Justin Sun at some point.
In March 2022, the SEC charged Rainberry with fraud for selling cryptocurrencies Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) as unregistered securities.
I think the SEC dropped all charges recently because the literal US government got on the payroll of Tether Inc, which basically runs the crypto show. Justin is just one of the appendages to the scheme.
After uTorrent was brought by BitTorrent Inc, they started releasing new shady versions, first added ads then released uTorrent bundle with crypto mining software without user consent
https://torrentfreak.com/new-utorrent-release-breaks-ties-with-bitcoin-miner-150413/
They speedran the enshittification process, so quickly the term wasn't even invented yet.
Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.
at least 15 years lol
I honestly couldn't say how long. I know I was late to the party on knowing what was going on with but even I moved on from it a long time ago now.
i used utorrent until a few years ago when i started caring enough to switch. old habit, like over 15 years ago when my mom taught me how to pirate, utorrent was good back then. don't know why i kept using it for that long, i even had to block ads in it by editing the hosts file...
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didn't realize people were still using utorrent. been at least a decade since it was decent
uTorrent's brand recognition is crazy, it's been crap for years and it still the name people who don't torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.
It’s so ubiquitous that for about a second I thought wait what I thought that was the good one until I remembered that I’ve been using qBittorrent for a decade.
For a time, it just was the client.
I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it's good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.
Only a decade late.. Luckily qBittorrent is brilliant. And if qBittorrent somehow wasn't an option, I might go with BiglyBT - it's not the easiest on the eyes, but lots of settings.
To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.
Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?
I remember on Reddit I'd see like a post a month from some uneducated pirate person asking how to fix a utorrent issue. It was fun watching them try to justify using it with all the other legit, updated clients. It didn't ever go well for the OP.
I mean if they want to use it despite being told the state of things then who cares? There’s nothing to win here, it’s their pc
I couldn’t care less if someone on the internet sabotages their files because they want to be right 100% of time
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you would not believe how common it is. It's like making a class of highschoolers take a colorblindness test. There's always ONE who had no idea
sidenote, it's really sad how the education system won't even spend 10 minutes a year to diagnose something that effects millions of children
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If uTorrent has no haters, I am dead
Do people still use transmission? That seems like be the default one I see in prebuilt torrent server containers.
It's not bad but it's pretty bare. A lot of people like their bells and whistles these days.
Edit: Changed the wording to be less broad for all the "But I..." specials.
speak for yourself. if it's pretty bare, it just moved to the top of my list
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Transmission's minimal features is what I like about it.
Does Transmission let you force the use of a specific connection?
For example, qBittorrent lets you choose your VPN as its only allowed connection so that you can't accidentally use your regular network when not connected to the VPN.
I use transmission but I force this behavior in pfsense
Hi! Could you give me some details or a link that describes how to do that? I'd like to harden my install. Thank you! :)
in qBittorrent: Tools > Options > Advanced > Network Interface. That dropdown box should list things like your Wi-Fi connection, Ethernet connection, etc., including an option that sounds like your VPN provider. If you run into troubles, do an Internet search for "qbittorrent network interface" for various articles and guides.
Thank you so much! :)
In the settings panel, the Advanced section has a setting for network interface, with a drop down menu of your available network devices. Your VPN connection should appear as a separate device in the list. If you choose that, it will only send data through that device, so if you're not connected, it has nowhere to send data to.
The github only has a description of the setting, and doesn't really explain it any more than that.
Thank you so much! :)
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For me the best are:
- Qbittorrent
- Transmission QT
- Ktorrent
- Deluge
Special mentiin: BiglyBT Fork of Azureus without the shit of Azureus
It's the default included with Ubuntu but they (Ubuntu) haven't updated it to be the latest released version. You have to add their PPA.
I switched over to qbittorrent for better control over what happens after the files download a few years ago.
Yepp, been using it for years. Lots of third party app support and a minimal web interface to add a new 🧲🚢 in a hurry
Definitely does not have any bells and whistles though, doesn't bother me but is a dealbreaker for some.
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I've always used Transmission, since there's a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.
https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/
That said, it looks like it hasn't been updated in over a year... I wonder if there's anything else out there that does the same thing as this.
You can set qBittorrent to only use a certain interface, and set that to the wireguard interface of your VPN.
I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.
It's FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.
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Transmission has never let me down.
True. Sometimes it's weird about packed files, and cleaning up after itself. Still worth it.
It doesn't have a proper dark theme in Windows so it let me down when it flashbanged me.
There's a migration program to transfer torrents from utorrent to qbittorrent.
https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=3224
I remember using it way back when, and they've kept it updated.
Isn't it as simple as exporting all torrents as .torrent files, importing them in qB, then pointing qB to the same downloads folder?
Some people have torrents across various directories or even renamed files in them (yes, it's possible and useful for crossseeding between trackers with different naming schemes). Of course, this makes migration way more difficult.
if I still downloaded directly to my local drive, I'd use utorrent BUT only the 2.2.1 version. it's been at least 4 years since I've done that due to a lack of having a functional laptop so I've been out of downloading stuff that way for years, but even then I knew that modern utorrent was bad. I actually stopped using any new version once bittorrent bought it.
ruTorrent)))
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