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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because if you live in oppressive countries without privacy laws, your ISP can/will also rat you out. Like the USA.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

On a private tracker my ISP knows the domain name of my tracker, and, the IP addresses of the peers I downloaded from. They do not know any of the content, unless they join the site AND seed the content in question.