Hallucinations or Being Spied on?

I swear every time I start downloading a torrent, literally any random one I find a certain peer from my country peaking and then disappearing, I tried banning it, but it still appears somewhere or another, am I experiencing some kind of hallucinations or am I being spied on? (the IP has been located to be on another city, but a major city).

You aren't hallucinating, those are DHT crawlers. They are absolutely spying on everyone. If you're downloading media that is too new or owned by the wrong rightsholders, use a tunneling software like OpenVPN or Wireguard. Or your neigbor's wifi.

>>67315 Have you heard of any Anti-DHT Crawlers? I might make a connection ban thing, but having an op repo is going to be easier, do you know any?

Nmap it, maybe its just ISP logging all the torrents

>>67341 That's what I believe is happening, it's not possible for anyone but ISP to track me that deep. But what you mean by "Nmap it"? I don't really have a good knowledge in Nmap compared to the average Nmap user, TIA.

>>67315 Tunnel to where? Is it pointless to get an actual VPN provider?

>>67343 It's not usually ISPs doing it. It's usually whoever holds the intellectual property rights. Really, it's a third party that sells torrent surveillance to the legal firms employed by the intellectual property rights holder. Then they'll send a message to your ISP who will warn you for it. >it's not possible for anyone but ISP to track me that deep. It's really easy and cheap to do. The basic process is that you register as a peer who is serving whatever torrent you want to monitor, then log everyone who sends a request for it. Easy, cheap. Some years ago there was even a website that did this for every torrent it could find and made it publicly available, so anyone could see which IPs were torrenting what. I can't recall the name, if any lain knows, please share.

>>67343 >it's not possible for anyone but ISP to track me that deep. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

>>67369 It's frightening to know such tool exists, nevertheless it's easy to work our way around it safely into pseudonymity.

Reminder that the official I2P software includes an easy to use torrent client by default. And here's the most popoular tracker for it, it's actually pretty active, and new torrents get added everyday: http://tracker2.postman.i2p/?view=Main&reset=1 But it would be nice if it got even more used, so do spam it around.

>>67385 i'm sorry, i never used I2P. what's the advantage of using it instead of clearnet torrenting?

>>67386 The advantage is that it's completely anonymous, so no one is able to know what you're downloading or uploading. I2P is actually pretty easy to set up and use, so don't be afraid to try it out, just follow the instructions on their website: https://geti2p.net You can also use it for IRC, XMPP, e-mails (there's a built-in client even for this), browsing and hosting i2p sites and more.

>>67369 >>67383 It knows everything I've seeded in the past month. I used to see porn, so this is scary. I don't want to host my personal website anymore

>>67385 It's called I2PSnark. There's a standalone version out there on I2P+'s website, scroll down to the downloads: https://i2pplus.github.io/ Really ought to have more users. >>67386 Anonymous, encrypted, can handle UDP connections unlike Tor. However, you can only really have connections within the mixnet, separate from the rest of the Internet. There is an outproxy service but that isn't really going to be reasonably anonymous compared to Tor. Unfortunately, most people are ignorant of how public regular torrents are like you were, and so there are less torrents overall on I2P.

>I2P Use 1-hop i2p tunnels for torrenting instead of 3 hops btw.

>>67419 Great advice, unnecessary things ought be avoided.

>>67313 if it keeps reappearing I think you need to just put them in the blocklist of the torrent and also put them blocked at a router level >>67315 this. it's mostly an issue with copyrighted content on the west. any jap soykaf don't usually get tracked for example. consider getting DDL instead (http download sites or indexes). >>67368 this >>67369 >>67313 the only thing I advice is to stop seeding after torrent is done. if you're that paranoid do not seed and leave the file for a time when you can get another better ISP and wait out until they the isp isn't that much aggressive. just save the seed/file so you can reseed in another time, the thing with torrents is if it's niche stuff and you risk it, I think you should just wait it out and reseed it later in time and if it's popular stuff just don't seed at all, let the big guys do. "data storing and archiving" is more important than it is "seeding at the moment" plus seeding also risk of decreasing your hdd lifespan which a lot of "seeders" suffer (if possible I advice you to superseed over files mirrored in your ram). those that try to out you are swarm crawlers, if you live in germany or close then you're fuarrrked regardless (since it's actually law companies doing it! for bounty I guess). I think you should stop seeding files after it's done, for your own safety. this is what I do, also try randomizing your torrent ports too. you can also disable DHT if you want but I do the opposite, block all tracker links (since this is more relevant), enable only dht and enable secure mode. the longer time you spend in the swarm the more likely some dumb torrent client leaks you to >>67369 and others

>>67443 >http download sites or indexes Compared to torrenting, what are downsides of this? I can just think of >slower download speeds >harder to find content >higher potential for honeypots and viruses >can't view contents before or while downloading

>>67383 Unrelated and maybe you're doing it intentionally, but by filling out the email field when you post, everyone can see your email by clicking on your name. Most people don't actually use the email field like that on one l imageboards because it reduces anonymity. Your browser might also be filling it out automatically.

>>67458 I'm using Kuroba Ex and I'm not specifying any meta data. I checked in my browser and have no idea what that email address is from.

>>67313 >>67315 I always thought there was something weird about this, but never took the time to look into it.

>>67443 >the only thing I advice is to stop seeding after torrent is done. The seeding is over.

>>67458 >>67383 Not relating to topic but I think it's just your google device doing "auto-fill" feature >>67313 Since this is a topic about spying how do you get over ISP's DPI (packet inspection) efforts? My ISP would block malformed packets (think V2ray) usage since it was abused by other clients but I'm not doing that, I just want to know how to effectively stop them from serving a fake server over my requested domain+IP. I think they try to inspect the domain header and then they serve a fake page in HTTP (or forged/no cert) which is bad since that means they are actively sabotaging the internet route for the said IP (and so it fails the TLS handshake), in which case this means the IP at specific port is MiTM'd since curl would still work. Is there a workaround for this yet or it's just changing to another less stupid ISP?