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

submitted 6 months ago by Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] noisypine@infosec.pub 11 points 6 months ago

I have been using tribler for a few years. It works well, abeit a bit slower than a plain torrent program, but still very reasonable.

I see a lot of people talking about using I2P for torrents but, as far as I know, I2P cannot use torrents from outside the I2P network. In addition to this, there is a non-trivial setup and confusing interface that people need to learn, whereas Tribler acts like any other torrent program, just with onion style routing. I really like I2P, but there's still more work to be done to attract more people and make it a truly viable alternative for most torrent needs.

[-] beaxingu@kbin.run 3 points 6 months ago

i think I2P needs better usability like what they did with the tor browser in the beginning it was a pain to use now it just works like a normal browser you just install and done.