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by hattmall 990 days ago
Would this get hashes of items shared on private trackers too?
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No because private trackers enforce that all torrents uploaded have DHT,PEX and LPD disabled. Usually done by a single tickbox that says “Make torrent private” in the client.

Of course, respecting these options in the torrent file is still up to the client. This is one of the reasons why all private trackers have a client whitelist too.