Are torrent blocklists still a thing? I remember having one years ago for my Transmission client but can't seem to find any "vouched for" free lists.

@dbowd1 · 9 months ago

Are torrent blocklists still a thing? I remember having one years ago for my Transmission client but can't seem to find any "vouched for" free lists.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I think the people who cared about that moved to private trackers.

Brickfrog · 9 months ago

They’ve always been pretty useless, people that actually care about that sort of thing would subscribe to a paid torrent friendly VPN.

PS - May want to check out the other community [email protected]

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

With IPV6 I don’t think that would work?

@linearchaos · 9 months ago

Fallen by the wayside. The acronym soup following people around really slowed going after individuals and most of those left are private or VPN.

Honestly block list is probably the lease effective way to stay safe. Whatever individuals could do to seem safe could also be done by the agencies.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I just manually block IPs that seem to be engaging in denial of service activity (sucking 3x the size of the torrent and still reporting 0% progress) and I’ve banned a few /16s too like those belonging to PoneyTelecom