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What public trackers do you always add to every torrent?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Completed a torrent I was downloading for almost 2 years by adding trackers from this list. It helps!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a way to use this in a more automated way instead of copying and pasting each time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have direct answer to the question, but I generally don't add public trackers to my (public) torrents. DHT/PEX usually works fine for me for finding seeds on the occasion that I do need something from public torrent sites.

I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

One begets the other, although your mileage may vary

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever shows up here: https://newtrackon.com/list

Only lists trackers submitted that are online with a 95% uptime.

[–] TriflingToad 10 points 2 weeks ago

honestly... I don't know what a tracker is, I just click the magnet button and qBitTorrent just downloads it
Is there something more I should be doing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't do that anymore. I just use a Debrid service and enjoy consistent 1Gbps download speeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is the point of adding other public tracker? Is it to cross seed? Or just higher probability to connect to a peer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The second one mainly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I add a bunch I copypasted from a list somewhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a waste of time. The torrent already comes included with the needed trackers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I disagree. There have been many times I've been able to find at least one peer for torrents that otherwise would never complete. Besides, how much time is copy and pasting really wasting?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you are gonna do that you might as well change your torrent client settings to automatically include the extra trackers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, good idea, then there wouldn't be any time wasted ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just don't do it if you use any private trackers.

I'm fairly certain that you could get banned if you put public trackers on a torrent from a private tracker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Private trackers generally will flag their torrents as private, allowing only their tracker to connect. But yes, better safe than sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Doot for later