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Don't use uTorrent. It's a scam.
I think a lot of nontechnical people or computer newbies have an assumption in their head that if you want free shit, you'll have to pay in other ways, like with advertising or tracking. It's just the way of the world that nothing is free. There's no free lunch. If a bittorrent client that you use to get free movies has ads, there must be no better options. We're bombarded with this idea constantly. Television, radio, streaming, social media. You get it for free but pay with your attention to ads. We've all been this person at some point.
Then you discover that there are other options, that there are groups of passionate nerds dedicating half of their lives to making useful stuff, distributing it to the world, and expecting nothing in return. This can't be real, right? What's the catch? I thought making software was so hard and boring that nobody would do it in exchange for nothing. But it's real. All this time you've been using crap software that nags you to try their other product, promotes products which have no earthly use, secretly captures information you expect to remain private, but there was this amazing thing outside the castle walls which does none of that. How did I not know about this before? Who are these altruistic people? I want to meet them.
Then you dig in more and find out about the free software movement. Some old hippie at MIT was mad he couldn't get his printer working because the manufacturer refused to supply the source code. He saw software being closed up and becoming industrial rather than academic, transitioning to making a profit, and couldn't bear it. Then we got linux, and all the systems around it, and all the distros, and there was once IBM who created the open PC standard, the copyleft/permissive division over licenses, and so on. Somewhere in the world, there is a 14-year-old learning about all this for the first time just as we did, and maybe it's all a little different because of AI and smartphones and that Stallman is more well-known to be sort of a creep, but it's still part of the history for how we got to where we are today.
It dawns on you that uTorrent is a trick and qBittorrent is the genuine, real deal. They're both "free" but one of them is more free than the other. One claims to be free, but was only created to make somebody passive income for eternity. The other is a bittorent client, a devoted implementation of a specification for an open protocol (the most basic of which is only a few pages long). Bittorrent is simple, fundamental infrastructure and there's absolutely no reason a client needs to show you ads or siphon away your data.
Yeah, I ditched my first private tracker because they enforced use of uTorrent. Kickbacks I assume. I've heard they don't anymore, but I still consider them compromised.
This has been the case for at least like 15 years. Baffles me that people still don't get the memo
What baffles me is why anyone still uses torrents when we have Usenet and Debrid services. Why wait for seeds, when you can just get a direct download of the exact same content at your internet connection's maximum download speed?
Usenet is to ne paid tho
I don't think the vast majority of torrent users are waiting for seeds, they're just grabbing current popular stuff with a zillion seeders that finishes downloading within a few minutes.
Yeah, as soon as ads started popping up I knew shit was going downhill.
I'm glad qbit has held the line so far, but I'm always spooked to download the newest update for fear that it may be the one that introduced AI or some other bloat.
even if they did, there are a million other options that are just as good.
Not really, qBittorrent has the best feature set
Transmission gang checking in.
Linux+Transmission master race represent
Yes! Via tremc
Barely using either anymore.
*arr stack all talks to RealDebridClient just as if it were qbitorrent and it proxies torrent through debrid provider.
Thats how prowlarr gets all my Linux distros.
Holy shit. Utorrent is still around??
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
docker+VPN+transmission ftw.
uTorrent has been compromised for years. I like Transmission for its simplicity.
I run Deluge for the same reason. AutoRemovePlus plugin and a couple others go a long way and just like Transmission it has a web-ui for remote management, so I can VPN back to my home network and manage deluge from my phone's browser.
100%. I stopped using them a very long time ago after they changed their UI to what it is now. I realized then it was compromised because the UI no longer served a useful purpose and instead prioritized visuals and engagement.
It's interesting how a UI overhaul can be a red flag. Recently for me it was Bitwarden's overhaul a little while back with all the cute emoji like graphics and rounded corners and stuff
Proton vpn is next on my chopping block.
Nice, I've been looking over alternatives for exactly that myself. Let me know if you find a good one. This world sure is in a state
Yeah nearly 20 years I think. It's not open either. If you can't figure this out god help you rawdogging the internet with torrents.
You can also run qBittorrent in a docker container behind an always on VPN. Very nice for those with a little arr in their lives. 🏴☠️
This also means you can run multiple instances very easily. I personally run one instance for public trackers, then an entirely separate instance for private trackers. It makes managing private seeding rules much easier, and helps avoid accidental hit-and-runs because of a dumb misconfiguration.
Alternatively a server-only qBittorrent (controllable via the web-interface only) without docker (package: qbittorrent_nox) behind an always on VPN, configured to only bind to the network interface of the VPN so that it doesn't send any data outside the VPN does the same but it's much lighter so you can put it in shitty-shit hardware.
This is what I have in the cheap mini-PC which I use as Homeserver/NAS/TV Media Player.
For maximum privacy, I have qBittorrent on an air gapped system. Good luck catching me FBI!
/s
I took the above setup one step further and never plugged in the power!
1000% this. Get on a private tracker and setup your glutun/qbit docker container and you never have to worry about your ratios or bring had by the feds. It's so nice. My jellyfin setup with Seerr gets a lot of traffic from my whole family. All of it is running on second hand hardware from office e-waste auctions that I've spent maybe $250 on over the last 4-5 years. Way cheaper than paying for all the subscription streamers. And I got to learn a fuckload of cool stuff I never would have otherwise.
Yes qbittorrent and gluetun in a docker container is very handy.
This was the setup I had recently, but recent versions of gluetun just couldn't maintain a connection. I tried with three different VPN providers and they all dropped connection within 12 hours.
You can run qBittorrent outside docker and configure it to only bind to the network interface for the VPN (in Tools->Options->Advanced->Network Interface).
Unless for some strange reason your VPN connection is constantly renaming the network interface when it starts, this should work fine and make sure qBittorrent never sends any data outside the VPN connection.
This is Linux, so there's usually more than one way to get the same result.
My torrent client is running in docker on my NAS, so running it outside of docker is a no-go. I switched back to my old setup of using a docker container that combines both qbittorrent and openvpn in the same container. Smooth sailing with no hitches at all. I can't share the VPN across containers anymore, but qbittorrent was the only container that actually needed it.
Maybe I'll get it working one day. Today is just not that day.
I either use Transmission or FDM
It's been malware for at least a decade, I think. It was good when it was first released but quickly went downhill.