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What are the advantages of using a private tracker? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using public trackers for the past 20 years, and never had a problem with them. I never got any virus or malware, and almost always found what I was looking for. What I couldn't find through public trackers, I'd find it with soulseek. So I'm wondering what are the actual advantages of using private trackers?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In my case, I didn't see any advantages compared to public trackers. Users of private trackers are supposedly all so elite, but in reality they pay for seedboxes and try to be the first to download literally every new release to at least somehow support the ratio around 1.0.

Guys, while you seed all sorts of junk for the sake of who knows what, I seed really useful content on public trackers and have a ratio of 99.3, which in fact does not affect anything.

There are normal private trackers, of course, such as Milkie, but there are a lot of dead torrents there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't see myself as elite, just lucky enough to be into piracy 15 years ago. I don't seed "junk", I contribute to a community.

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