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Ask HN: Do you know any application that uses webtorrent?
9 points by monkhood 848 days ago
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runjake 848 days ago
The Brave web browser.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

Also here, under "Who is using WebTorrent today?":

https://webtorrent.io/faq

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leros 848 days ago
Some games use torrents to distribute the bandwidth for updates.

Some server applications use torrents to sync large files across many servers.

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comprev 847 days ago
I remember reading about a large tech company who used torrents to distribute new releases internally.
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chislobog 845 days ago
Facebook, Twitter, Eanes ebay all use torrents internally for various things. The story might be

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/exclu...

https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/engineering/bittorrent-f...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803026

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