Tribler is a powerful and censorship resistant peer-to-peer decentralized torrent client, providing fast and privacy enhanced file-sharing experiences using Tor-inspired onion routing. Download and share torrents with ease.

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?

  • PirateJesusEnglish
    20•22 days ago

    Does nobody use the god given Repository of all human knowledge?

    There are privacy issues that still have not been addressed as of 2023:

    A privacy review of Tribler, the onion-routed BitTorrent app

    https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/tribler-onion-routed-bittorrent.html

    Daniel Aleksandersen 2022-01-11 10:35Z

    Hi Anth0rx, yes — I’ve looked into all of them. Here are some hot-takes:

    Loginet is just a front for a cryptocurrency. It’s decentralized but not distributed. It’s primary purpose is to selling you hot air, though.

    I2P can only talk to other I2P users. There are far from enough users on it to reliably use it for P2P. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, it just never reached critical mass. The set-up process is probably too complicated for most potential users.

    GNUnet has been “fixing the internet” for literally two decades. They‘ve yet to deliver anything. The software download pages clearly warns that it’s still “not yet ready”. It’s an interesting project, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

    Daniel Aleksandersen 2023-07-02 15:17Z

    The project change log does not indicate any work on any of the things discussed in this article. I might revisit this after the next beta release.

    TLDR: Censorship resistant doesn’t mean anything if they can find you and nail you to a cross