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Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (7 children)

If it's spoofing them, its going to be more effort than it's worth to actually detect that client. I strongly recommend you to delete this post or you're gonna cause a massive Streissand Effect

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

There are more ways to detect than peer ID.

This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it's mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service

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

Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.

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