I’m considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?
Do you have a static ip? If that’s not the case, than you have nothing to worry about
Idk, i never gave aa fuck.
In general that might be a recipe for better living 99.9% of the time, yet for the paranoid it remains a hard art to master!
Just use Usenet.
I guess you can say I’m a very old pirate when people shared ftps and call them pubs and downloading from bots on mirc kazzaa and emule. I never heard about usenet until I started using lemmy and since then it’s all I hear about lol. I tried to understand it but it feels very complex and cost money
I wouldn’t join a private tracker that requires me to expose my real IP. It doesn’t sound serious at all.
I did mine at an Airbnb. It is a home address but not mine. Make sure you’re on a resedential IP though. You can often tell them your using a VPN and there by never share a real IP.
I have never trusted private tracker security who usally depend to security through obscurity which is BS.
