Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am curious to know what I am missing out on by not having access to private torrents? I have been able to find everything I wanted using public ones.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Public trackers’ public nature means they’re more likely to result in your activity being seen / tracked by entities you don’t want it tracked by, for one. Ever gotten one of those letters from your ISP warning you not to download pirated shit? My understanding is that that’s usually the result of using an insecure tracker.

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      32 years ago

      Or the lack of a VPN (specifically one that has a kill switch activated and to which the bittorrent client is bound).