- richmondez@lemdro.idEnglish1 year
If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
- 1 year
μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc.
That should be enough for any sane person. A proprietary bittorrent client is the worst joke i have heard in a while.
- 1 year
This. For most people, they either hated the 3.0 update (assuming 2010), or hated the enshittification after 3.2.2 (assuming 2012).
- banghida@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
The parent company, bittorrent Inc got purchased by a serial crypto scammer Justin Sun at some point.
In March 2022, the SEC charged Rainberry with fraud for selling cryptocurrencies Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) as unregistered securities.
I think the SEC dropped all charges recently because the literal US government got on the payroll of Tether Inc, which basically runs the crypto show. Justin is just one of the appendages to the scheme.
1 yearAfter uTorrent was brought by BitTorrent Inc, they started releasing new shady versions, first added ads then released uTorrent bundle with crypto mining software without user consent
https://torrentfreak.com/new-utorrent-release-breaks-ties-with-bitcoin-miner-150413/
They speedran the enshittification process, so quickly the term wasn’t even invented yet.
- DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.
- DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
I honestly couldn’t say how long. I know I was late to the party on knowing what was going on but even I moved on from it a long time ago now.
- 1 year
i used utorrent until a few years ago when i started caring enough to switch. old habit, like over 15 years ago when my mom taught me how to pirate, utorrent was good back then. don’t know why i kept using it for that long, i even had to block ads in it by editing the hosts file…
- DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
I think it just comes down to habit and wanting to keep things simple. The adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” exists for a reason, after all. I never even bothered going as far as to trying block the ads. They suddenly appeared for me one day but would never render, the panels just kept flashing at me. It might have been while looking up a fix - I can’t remember - but it was around that time that I also heard about the undisclosed mining issue so I quickly jumped ship. Been happily using qbittorrent ever since and now wouldn’t really be able to swap again thanks to finding a proper dark mode theme for it. So few others seem to have it and I have no idea what I’m doing with theme creation.
didn’t realize people were still using utorrent. been at least a decade since it was decent
Only a decade late… Luckily qBittorrent is brilliant. And if qBittorrent somehow wasn’t an option, I might go with BiglyBT - it’s not the easiest on the eyes, but lots of settings.
- 1 year
To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.
- LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish1 year
uTorrent’s brand recognition is crazy, it’s been crap for years and it still the name people who don’t torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.- ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
It’s so ubiquitous that for about a second I thought wait what I thought that was the good one until I remembered that I’ve been using qBittorrent for a decade.
For a time, it just was the client.
- 大きいＢＯＹ@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 year
True. Sometimes it’s weird about packed files, and cleaning up after itself. Still worth it.
It gets messed up when downloading files onto a slow smb share but that’s mostly my bad
- Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
It doesn’t have a proper dark theme in Windows so it let me down when it flashbanged me.
My only gripe was that it doesn’t handle (unencoded) spaces in a URL name, which is probably correct behavior but they’re in the titles of torrents on some sites, so I’d have to manually edit them each time. I ended up just using qBT.
- 1 year
Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?
Edit: Apparently, unfortunately, yes
- TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
you would not believe how common it is. It’s like making a class of highschoolers take a colorblindness test. There’s always ONE who had no idea
sidenote, it’s really sad how the education system won’t even spend 10 minutes a year to diagnose something that effects millions of children. There’s FREE websites that they can just open on their board or projector
- 1 year
I remember on Reddit I’d see like a post a month from some uneducated pirate person asking how to fix a utorrent issue. It was fun watching them try to justify using it with all the other legit, updated clients. It didn’t ever go well for the OP.
I mean if they want to use it despite being told the state of things then who cares? There’s nothing to win here, it’s their pc
I couldn’t care less if someone on the internet sabotages their files because they want to be right 100% of time
- nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.
- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish1 year
I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
- Grostleton@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it’s good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.
I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.
https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/
That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)
You can set qBittorrent to only use a certain interface, and set that to the wireguard interface of your VPN.
- 1 year
I switched from that container to one that uses qbittorrent and a VPN.
qBittorrent web UI works better on a phone for my use case, and I kept having to manually restart the transmission container whenever the VPN connection dropped.
- 1 year
I run qBittorrent on a server (with a VPN as the only outside connection) and use an open source app to control it from my mobile devices. It can catch magnet: links and torrent files and send them to qBittorrent via its API.
- merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish1 year
qbitcontroller is a brilliant app on android. It sends push notifications when your downloads complete and it bundles everything into a brilliant interface for mobile imo.
- 1 year
I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.
It’s FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.
Throughout the years I’ve seen so many of these apps get mass-adopted, then a few years later some issue comes up that makes people mass-exodus to another app and it starts all over again.
Meanwhile, Transmission has been consistent (and you can self-host/run seedboxes with it).
- 1 year
Do people still use transmission? That seems like be the default one I see in prebuilt torrent server containers.
- DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
It’s not bad but it’s pretty bare. A lot of people like their bells and whistles these days.
Edit: Changed the wording to be less broad for all the “But I…” specials.
speak for yourself. if it’s pretty bare, it just moved to the top of my list
- DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Then enjoy. It just isn’t for a lot of people. You have helped as a statistic to the original question though.
- 1 year
Transmission’s minimal features is what I like about it.
- moody@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
Does Transmission let you force the use of a specific connection?
For example, qBittorrent lets you choose your VPN as its only allowed connection so that you can’t accidentally use your regular network when not connected to the VPN.
- 1 year
Never thought of that. In my use case, Transmission is running in a container on my server, so it only ever has one connection, and VPN and traffic management happens on my router.
- LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Hi! Could you give me some details or a link that describes how to do that? I’d like to harden my install. Thank you! :)
in qBittorrent: Tools > Options > Advanced > Network Interface. That dropdown box should list things like your Wi-Fi connection, Ethernet connection, etc., including an option that sounds like your VPN provider. If you run into troubles, do an Internet search for “qbittorrent network interface” for various articles and guides.
- moody@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
In the settings panel, the Advanced section has a setting for network interface, with a drop down menu of your available network devices. Your VPN connection should appear as a separate device in the list. If you choose that, it will only send data through that device, so if you’re not connected, it has nowhere to send data to.
The github only has a description of the setting, and doesn’t really explain it any more than that.
For me the best are:
- Qbittorrent
- Transmission QT
- Ktorrent
- Deluge
Special mention: BiglyBT Fork of Azureus without the shit of Azureus
- boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Oh there’s the other person who remembers the original Azureus!
Okay I’m kidding, it was fairly popular before it became Vomit… I mean Vuze. After it went to shit I bounced around till I found utorrent and then a bit later Transmission, Deluge and now Qbittorrent in a container.
- 1 year
It’s the default included with Ubuntu but they (Ubuntu) haven’t updated it to be the latest released version. You have to add their PPA.
I switched over to qbittorrent for better control over what happens after the files download a few years ago.
- 1 year
Yeah, Transmission is pretty nice, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s also pretty popular among macOS users, because it looks and feels like a native app.
- 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
Yepp, been using it for years. Lots of third party app support and a minimal web interface to add a new 🧲🚢 in a hurry
Definitely does not have any bells and whistles though, doesn’t bother me but is a dealbreaker for some.
- zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish1 year
There’s a migration program to transfer torrents from utorrent to qbittorrent.
https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=3224
I remember using it way back when, and they’ve kept it updated.
Isn’t it as simple as exporting all torrents as
.torrentfiles, importing them in qB, then pointing qB to the same downloads folder?- 1 year
Some people have torrents across various directories or even renamed files in them (yes, it’s possible and useful for crossseeding between trackers with different naming schemes). Of course, this makes migration way more difficult.
- ctkatz@lemmy.mlEnglish1 year
if I still downloaded directly to my local drive, I’d use utorrent BUT only the 2.2.1 version. it’s been at least 4 years since I’ve done that due to a lack of having a functional laptop so I’ve been out of downloading stuff that way for years, but even then I knew that modern utorrent was bad. I actually stopped using any new version once bittorrent bought it.
