>>1348607CONTINUED FROM ABOVE, PART 2/2:
* Additionally, that other anon is right: this third-party service literally runs a torrent tracker - a software on some server somewhere that handles connections and responds with lists of peers. At the VERY LEAST, it maintains [in its memory and/or as a database on the hard drive] a list of peers for the torrents/hashes at this given minute/hour/day, because otherwise it will literally not function as a tracker at all. Do you know the guys behind this random-ass third-party service? What makes you certain that they don't keep these logs indefinitely? That these logs will not be leaked? Or outright sold? 5 years from now? Next month? Or right now in real time?
To sum up:
- You use a third party tracker service
- Which you think protects you from unwanted parties seeing what you download, which is important to you
- It does not
- You should be very suspicious of any such service promising things like this when it does NOT work this way
- You are entrusting some random third party with the privacy of logs of your IP's downloads; the previous point makes it actually MORE LIKELY that they don't have your interests in mind
As a side note, that other anon is correct that by doing this, not only are you NOT protecting yourself, but you are also hindering the archival of your torrents - which you distribute publicly - which is kinda the opposite of what you intend to do (share nice stuff with people online).
> We are talking about sharing and that website is only providing a private tracker URL link for sharing the desired data between friends/users/communitiesThis sentence in particular makes me believe that you don't know enough about how a tracker functions (any tracker), which is very dangerous for you seeing as privacy is something you intend to take seriously.
>>1347998Anon, I strongly urge you to read this response to that guy. He is giving bad advice that does not work and does not provide you privacy.
