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I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Someone else who uses the same VPN as I is really into butt stuff. I have to question their commitment to 480p though.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Could be worse. Someone sharing my IP is into really freaky stuff like "kubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso"

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

23.10? Non LTS?? What a disgusting freak!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Really tame vanilla stuff over here, I'm seeing debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Kubuntu? Whore.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I have to question their commitment to 480p though.

Sometimes quantity is more important than quality. Hard drives ain't free.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

But hard-ons are apparently.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I love this website. It's usually pretty accurate, except for..

Two big hard monster cocks pumped up Marilyn Crystal gaping ass & pussy FS033 sd.mp4

MyDaughtersHotFriend.23.06.07.Freya.Von.Doom.XXX.1080p.HEVC.x265.PRT[XvX]

I think I'd remember those...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It can show things that you've never downloaded if your ISP assigns a dynamic or shared IP. So it means some of your neighbors are into that kind of thing.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

They clearly have a daughter who has a hot friend, can't you read?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I don't, but if I did, why would they stop at just 2? I wouldn't raise a quitter!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile me, who is behind so many layers of badly configured ISP NAT that there's no way anyone knows exactly what computer is downloading what: 😈

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

And this is why - all together now - "An IP is not an ID". They don't know what you've downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren't useful, alone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My fellow Windscribe VPN users are downloading some freaky shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some guy on Nord downloaded "FacialAbuse E918 MILFs Cervix Gets Dilated And Sucks In Breeding Batter XXX 1080p HEVC x265 PRT[XvX]" >.>

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Personally I feel that E933 is where the series really hit its stride

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Home internet was empty. Mobile internet has a few Marvel movies and shit like that. VPN has child porn.

Feels pretty icky to share the same ip as some people downloading those lame ass movies

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How bizarre, none of the items on the list were actually things I downloaded, and none of the things I downloaded were on the list.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same for me... I wonder what's going on? ~/s~

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

probably your ISP doing funky things

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

This legitimately is only showing me Linux ISOs... Huh... Guess I'm good to go then!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

It is always a joy to see what my virtual neighbors download... Some have a very refined... Taste.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using mullvad for a few years—since PIA got bought out—and would recommend it if you're concerned about trust.

So, using a VPN doesn't actually eliminate all possibility of being tracked. All you're doing is replacing who can potentially see all of your data, from your ISP to the VPN provider, so trust is actually a pretty important factor.

When I switched the consensus at the time was that mullvad was the most true to its privacy statement, i.e. trustworthy. A lot of other vpns are cheaper or have more bells and whistles, but have histories of data breaches or scandals, are based in countries with weak privacy/strong surveillance laws, or are owned by companies that may have an interest in the customers data (like with the PIA acquisition I mentioned).

Mullvad too has had a few incidents where they were served court orders to provide data to the police, but iirc no data was ever actually given up. Plus, they allow a bunch of different privacy-centric payment methods, including just sending cash in an envelope.

I'd recommend taking a look at some more recent discussions comparing VPNs but I think considering mullvad is a good place to start.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sites like these are always useless, they never showed jack shit for me. Because I don't use public trackers I stick with private ones and those stupid Bots don't have access to private trackers

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

*Results my vary in accuracy due to the nature of dynamic, Shared, or incorrectly assigned IP Addresses.

Also

*Results only included from Public trackers, private trackers do not show up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

the results for me are hilarious, who knew people in my general area downloaded so much porn... and... weird porn at that

it's literally only porn, who the heck torrents porn?

some of the most hilariously sounding things on that list:

very nsfw

  • FATAL ECSTASY.rar
  • I was looking for work as a voice actor but I was made to do a motion capture sex.rar
  • Picking up girl on the way home from a live show and having sex!.rar
  • Divine Fuck VR ~Sex Worship~
  • Sailor Girl Stuck In A Wall.rar
  • ReEro - Ejaculating in Another World ver.2.0 [EnglishMTL].rar
  • Intercourse Study Week.rar
[–] can 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  • Sailor Girl Stuck In A Wall.rar

Just when I think nothing can surprise me anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Lol somebody using the same VPN as me downloaded a 275 GB collection of some porn star's videos... 5 hours in the future

(I know about time zones, don't @ me)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Website is blank for me. I guess that just confirms my suspicions that a VPN would be a waste of money for me personally

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Cool. The government is incompetent and tech illiterate here so I'm safe anyway. It's like running from a bear, I just have to outrun the others running from it.

There are people who pirate stuff from telegram using their mobile numbers, so I'm fine.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Being behind IPv6 CGNAT mean I see other's people downloads too with "my" ip

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does CGNAT protect from ISP letters?

Because for all the pain it causes me, it should at least be useful for something

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] kugmo 9 points 9 months ago

Heads up, this website doesn't get data on stuff you download from private trackers, only public.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I don't use a VPN and the list that comes up for me here isn't remotely accurate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

It says mine is a static IP when it's not. And shows some downloads that I don't even know.

Dynamic IP for the win!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

AirVPN cuz I dont know any other with port forwarding thats cheap like that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

TIL I download tantra, kama sutra and yoni massage books/epubs

Great to see the IP scrambling works as it is supposed to

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I’ll admit, this spooked me, but for different reasons than the OP and most comments.

I didn’t recognize any of the downloads, even though I have a publicly routable static IP and don’t use a VPN (I have a domain and self host so I know my IP hast changed in years).

I use exclusively private trackers, and nothing I’ve actually downloaded showed up, and the things that did were sporadic—one every couple days or so, first/last seen times identical, random torrents. I started asking myself if I had a rogue device in my network, so I checked logs and stats—nothing unusual (I think…I hope…hard to tell sometimes).

I looked more into how this site tracks peers, and it seems they have different levels of confidence. Their first API tier (peer API) is a “best guess” and this is based on listening to the DHT and PeX networks for their known torrents. I’m guessing their website uses this or a combination of this with their other APIs. I looked at my torrent config and saw I hadn’t disabled DHT/PeX and had a couple idle public torrents.

Not positive on this, but I think there can be false positives if your torrent box participates in DHT/PeX even if it doesn’t actually download said torrents. Can anyone confirm this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The folks on similar IPs to me really like porn.

I’m on Nord. I know a lot of folks on here diss it, but I’ve been mostly happy with it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Nothing for me thanks to real debrid

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