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How do you overcome the fears of using your home IP to join a private tracker? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm considering joining my first private tracker. It turns out that most of them need you to pass an interview connected through your home IP. I understand this is a reasonable way to filter scammers and duplicate accounts. Still, to those who did it, how do you feel knowing your main IP is stored and associated to your torrenting history?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

FWIW, I've been using multiple private trackers over the past decade and have never, not even once, gotten a letter of doom from my ISP. I'm currently seeding probably over 1TB of shit on my UNRAID server to multiple private trackers as I type this. None of that is behind a VPN.

Now, public trackers are a whole other story, I always will use public trackers from behind a VPN. The couple times I have forgotten to download from behind a VPN using them I have gotten insta-emailed from my ISP to cut it out.