WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agoPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1150arrow-down1external-linkPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.comWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-211 months agoThere are more ways to detect than peer ID. This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
minus-squareDarkncoldbard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·11 months agoThat. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service
minus-squareNorah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down7·11 months agoMe, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.
There are more ways to detect than peer ID.
This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service
Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.