It's not unlikely. Watermarking is real. And they don't make it easy to strip off.
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@dbzer0 your reddit is broken, it keeps changing & to & in links and the opposite not in links
Tor has lots of bandwidth for browsing. Just not for streaming or torrenting. You can use it to browse trackers.
Those are low risk because the traffic doesn't go to the internet.
If they don't care, you don't need security.
Private trackers see your ratio because your client tells it to them. If you cheat, you get banned. They can tell you cheat because the seeder reports upload but you don't report download. You must not use private tracker torrents except on their tracker because it looks like cheating because the other client isn't connected to their tracker, and you will get banned.
Cooler and less cool because no exit nodes. It's fully separate from normal internet.
I2P is separate from normal internet. It's not an alternative to VPN.
If you use OpenVPN, their client doesn't matter
Try OpenVPN?
Usenet
You can mod any open source client to cheat but most of them don't give you buttons to do it.