Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 17:38:05 -0700, Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 21:51:47 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote 
>
>>>> Saving magnet links takes me under a second. Too quick to notice.
>
>That's not what I had meant by latency. 
>Copying & pasting a magnet link takes milliseconds at most.
>Then you wait.
>And you wait.
>And you wait some more.
>
>That's called "latency".
>
>You add random latency to the time BETWEEN when you grabbed the magnet.
>And the time you employed that magnet link inside a bit torrent client.
>
>Of course, you change your IP address between those two times also.
>But if there's is a short latency, they can easily figure which was you.
>
>You don't want them to figure out that it was the same person who grabbed
>the magnet who then immediately started torrenting the media.
>
>Latency puts distance (in time) between those two "related" events.
>It's the whole point of latency in the first place.
>
>>>> In terms of torrents, what are some good torrent sites that are still
>>>> working?
>
>https://thepiratebay.org has been working for me for twenty years or so.
>https://libgen.rs/ has been working for books and epubs for a while too.

https://libgen.rs/  returns a "server not found" error.

 I've been using https://ebook-hunter.org/ and
https://www.ebookhunter.net/ for ebooks.

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