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by admax88q 2820 days ago
From the FAQ

> It's no more anonymous than BitTorrent, but privacy (the possibility to find out who is the owner of the comment/site) will increase as the network and the sites gains more peers.

I think users are much better off using something anonymous out of the box like I2P which has simple out of box support for downloading torrents anonymously.
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furi 2820 days ago
It has Tor integration out of the box (obviously I haven't audited it, but in theory that's enough).
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TACIXAT 2820 days ago
Don't use Tor for torrenting! [1] The network is not meant for providing fast downloads, it's there for providing anonymity. There is no reason to effectively DoS the network and get crappy speeds when you can simply pay a few bucks a month for a VPN that supports port forwarding.

1. https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...

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xf86alsa 2820 days ago
Yeah no torrenting is done over Tor here :) It's worth mentioning that ever since ZeroNet gained its BigFiles plugin, you can directly stream and watch the videos on ZeroNet. Just that nobody has made a nice interface for it yet.

There's sites like [KopyKate](https://zn.amorgan.xyz/big.kopykate.bit/), but they've sort of fallen downhill as the dev has stopped updating it.

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furi 2820 days ago
Not for torrenting, for accessing/delivering ZeroNet sites over. (i.e. connecting to the torrent tracker to get the magnet in the first place).
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