Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:40:55 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote 

>> What if you happen to be gay, for example, and you downloaded gay movies.
> 
> In my part of the world, that's almost the default sexuality, so no one 
> would blink if someone was known to be gay. 

You're not supposed to argue the analogy in detail - it's just an example.

> In terms of privacy, GDPR 
> makes it very difficult to utilize IP-logs without evidence of a crime, so 
> having companies or IP-lawyers just browsing the IP logs of ISP:s is a 
> complete nonstarter and could at worst end up costing the ISP:s 4% of 
> their revenue, and various other fines and penalties.

If you feel that nobody (not even Google) is tracking you, then you are
lucky in terms of where you live & how safe the government makes you feel. 

I'm not feeling as safe from tracking of my daily activities as you are.
So I add latency between all my actions (where latency makes sense).

>> It's not illegal but you'd still want to have some anonymity when doing it.
> 
>> Anyway, the question has been fleshed out that there is value to adding
>> random latency between the act of obtaining a magnet & the act of using it.
>>
>> The only question to be answered here is how much time most people wait.
> 
> In my case, what I am more worried about than someone snooping through the 
> logs of my ISP is the increasing monitoring and surveillance of 
> communication/chat and the ever increasing camera surveillance and the 
> crack down on opinions that are no in line with the goverment.

There are ways around that, one of which has been mentioned, which is to
use a VPN, but other options exist that can be used on top of the VPN.

Privacy-based proxy web browsers are probably the easiest way to do that.
 
> I do chat about sensitive topics on encrypted platforms, so there I do 
> take measures. I also keep a lot of sensitive discussions to in person, 
> private meetings as well.

When chatting, latency can't easily be introduced, although the government
has programs where they don't "chat" in real time - which employs latency.

The question always was never whether latency is good or bad (as it's very
well known to add to your privacy). The question was only of how much.