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Tribler: Peer-to-Peer decentralized torrent client (www.tribler.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to gauge interest in Tribler. It claims to be a tor-like p2p client created by privacy researchers. Has anyone had experience with Tribler? Did you get any takedown notices? What were speeds like?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I sorta don't get it. Aren't torrents sorta the original peer to peer thing to begin with?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Original? No. Usenet, BBS, IRC are the originals. Napster made it hip. Soul seek made it better. Then there was Limewire, DirectConnect, and some others. Then there was BitTorrent, which I really did use to download Linux ISOs before the rise of popular public and private trackers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Torrents are p2p and can be encrypted but aren't anonymous. Tribler claims to be tor-like and no trust needed i.e. anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks like connections are onion-routed and it has its own built-in discovery

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Then why not just turn on I2P on regular torrents on regular clients like qBitTorrent?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I don't know why, only what lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I guess you could sat the same thing about the tor browser but I feel torrenting is a level where you should not really need it integrated.