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Comment by mixmastamyk

3 years ago

Oh, how does that work? Sounds like the encrypted connection isn’t?

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nerdbert  3 years ago

Trackers will share your IP with anyone who is trying to download the same file. This is more or less require in order for the protocol to work.

People/organizations run bots that pretend to be interested in popular downloads so that they can collect these IPs.

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