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I Know What You Download

53 points by melzarei 7y ago

ars 7y ago
Not a single one of the links listed is correct for me. (And I am not NAT'd.)
- slaman 7y ago
  Likewise.
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- leetcrew 7y ago
  unless you pay extra for a static ip, there's bound to be false-positives on a site like this.
  - ars 7y ago
    I've had the same IP for months now.
    - rahuldottech 7y ago
      Multiple homes/routers/connections can be assigned the same IP.
      - ubercow13 7y ago
        They said they aren’t behind CGNAT
        ars 7y ago
        Clicking through on a particular torrent, till I get the IP list for that torrent, my IP doesn't actually show on that list. So I suspect a bug in the display, perhaps if you download nothing, it shows incorrect info?
- StavrosK 7y ago
  I downloaded some stuff the other day and it shows up fine for me.
lostgame 7y ago
MacOS Mojave/Safari, Toronto, Canada. Dunno why, but I got nothing. I just didn’t see anything in the list. shrug I guess it didn’t work for me.
- sturmeh 7y ago
  You're not downloading popular torrents on public trackers?
  - skinnymuch 7y ago
    Is that surprising? I would assume the vast majority of people don’t download torrents if I had to guess.
    - sturmeh 7y ago
      Not at all, I was proposing why the list would be empty.
- Jonovono 7y ago
  I'm in Toronto too :p It got one of my shows on there, eek
somehnguy 7y ago
Well that was pretty interesting. Nothing listed for my external IP as I expected. But I hopped onto one of my VPN providers endpoints and got a huge list - mostly TV shows, movies, and porn. Not exactly unexpected but still neat to see.
- Paraesthetic 7y ago
  I did the same thing, as there was nothing on my private IP, but as far as VPN provider goes, the people I share an IP with are monsters.
- kovek 7y ago
  I believe now that you're on the list they'll track what you download?
  - bardan 7y ago
    I think they have just been joining the most active torrents on popular trackers. You can't watch for what somebody torrents just with their IP address, you have to be watching the torrent itself.
werdnapk 7y ago
Well, not sure what I expected, but my (dynamic) IP was used about a week ago to download a porn torrent and it's the only item listed.
3xblah 7y ago
Redirects from https to http.
qrbLPHiKpiux 7y ago
Nothing for me on my static ip
Geee 7y ago
Does this work for anyone?
- wheelerwj 7y ago
  I mean, it shows me results. I have no idea if its correct. I am working from a co-working space and it shows that someone on this IP has torrented a couple of xxx films.
- nayaketo 7y ago
  It shows some of my torrent downloads tangled with tons of other torrent downloads that are not mine. Looks like it's showing all downloads for a particular IP and my ISP uses shared IP for multiple customers.
  - slenk 7y ago
    Wait what, ISPs NAT their customers now? That's just not cool
    - thisisastopsign 7y ago
      Well we have run out of IPv4 and ISPs aren’t in a hurry to adopt IPv6. Also, isn’t this common in apartment complexes?
      - slenk 7y ago
        ...now that I think about it I think I was NATted before; I just wasn't smart enough to know what it was at the time. Now you have made me think. Fun fact: the college I graduated had a /16 with a student population of ~4k. Every single device got it's own public IP address.
    - rambojazz 7y ago
      That has been the case for ages. Not all ISPs do it though.
banana_giraffe 7y ago
I do wonder how their categorizations work. There are lot of things classified as Movies that are clearly TV shows. This doesn't bode well for what they call "Child Porn". If they sell the lists of these IPs, it's rather scary to think it's as reliable as their Movie or TV filters.
wtmt 7y ago
This can be used for amusement, but is in no way reliable to know what you (or anyone else) downloads. It could possibly act as a starting point to track what someone is downloading/seeding when used with other mechanisms. > How we collect data > Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 1.500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 200.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts: > Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user's ISP. For example mobile operators often used this schema. Self-explanatory, but this could also be the case for home broadband where CGNAT is used. This means your public torrent downloads (or even if you don’t have any downloads) will be seen along with many others’ downloads as a single list. > IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every time user connects to the Internet or periodically. Again, self-explanatory. Unless one obtains and uses a static addresses (not the default for most home connections), what you see here could be somewhat similar to the previous point. > User could download torrent which we don't have Aka private trackers and torrents, which is what many people who know how to torrent and do it regularly would drift towards. The torrent files from private trackers set a “private” flag that makes the torrent client disable features like DHT (distributed hash table) and PEX (peer exchange) for those torrents. So unless you have a working account on the tracker and join a swarm, you cannot find out about other peers from public sources.
lonelappde 7y ago
All I see is a generic page plastered wall to wall with ads.
thunderbong 7y ago
Why is this flagged?
- c0nducktr 7y ago
  Because users flagged it. A better question might be, "why did you flag this post?", although those who did won't likely see your comment. Edit: Your account is from 2012, are you still learning how this site works?
  - thunderbong 7y ago
    I do know how the HN works. But I can't see who flagged it. So it's really a genuine question - I don't see anything about the site that is against the guidelines. And I'm trying to understand why whoever flagged it did so.
    - alanfranz 7y ago
      For posts, flag seems to be a proxy for the missing downvote button, to many users. Sad, but that's the way it goes.
remmargorp64 7y ago
This is why you should never torrent without using a VPN and/or seedbox. I'm partial towards put.io myself.
dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
Can someone explain this: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8 ?
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
  Probably the first stages of the blue goo infiltrating our cyberphysical infrastructures. Prepare to be disassembled for scanning!
weare138 7y ago
Anyone else finding a crapton of porn? Because I'm finding crapton of porn.
LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
Unreliable. My ISP in Hamburg, Germany recently got some Iranian and Ukrainian IPv4 space allocated. And it locates me in Aachen, about 500km/310 miles to the southwest.

53 points by melzarei 7y ago

ars 7y ago

Not a single one of the links listed is correct for me. (And I am not NAT'd.)

slaman 7y ago
Likewise.
deleted 7y ago
[deleted]
leetcrew 7y ago
unless you pay extra for a static ip, there's bound to be false-positives on a site like this.
- ars 7y ago
  I've had the same IP for months now.
  - rahuldottech 7y ago
    Multiple homes/routers/connections can be assigned the same IP.
    - ubercow13 7y ago
      They said they aren’t behind CGNAT
      - ars 7y ago
        Clicking through on a particular torrent, till I get the IP list for that torrent, my IP doesn't actually show on that list. So I suspect a bug in the display, perhaps if you download nothing, it shows incorrect info?
StavrosK 7y ago
I downloaded some stuff the other day and it shows up fine for me.

lostgame 7y ago

MacOS Mojave/Safari, Toronto, Canada. Dunno why, but I got nothing. I just didn’t see anything in the list. shrug I guess it didn’t work for me.

sturmeh 7y ago
You're not downloading popular torrents on public trackers?
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  Is that surprising? I would assume the vast majority of people don’t download torrents if I had to guess.
  - sturmeh 7y ago
    Not at all, I was proposing why the list would be empty.
Jonovono 7y ago
I'm in Toronto too :p It got one of my shows on there, eek

somehnguy 7y ago

Well that was pretty interesting. Nothing listed for my external IP as I expected. But I hopped onto one of my VPN providers endpoints and got a huge list - mostly TV shows, movies, and porn. Not exactly unexpected but still neat to see.

Paraesthetic 7y ago
I did the same thing, as there was nothing on my private IP, but as far as VPN provider goes, the people I share an IP with are monsters.
kovek 7y ago
I believe now that you're on the list they'll track what you download?
- bardan 7y ago
  I think they have just been joining the most active torrents on popular trackers. You can't watch for what somebody torrents just with their IP address, you have to be watching the torrent itself.

werdnapk 7y ago

Well, not sure what I expected, but my (dynamic) IP was used about a week ago to download a porn torrent and it's the only item listed.

3xblah 7y ago

Redirects from https to http.

qrbLPHiKpiux 7y ago

Nothing for me on my static ip

Geee 7y ago

Does this work for anyone?

wheelerwj 7y ago
I mean, it shows me results. I have no idea if its correct. I am working from a co-working space and it shows that someone on this IP has torrented a couple of xxx films.
nayaketo 7y ago
It shows some of my torrent downloads tangled with tons of other torrent downloads that are not mine. Looks like it's showing all downloads for a particular IP and my ISP uses shared IP for multiple customers.
- slenk 7y ago
  Wait what, ISPs NAT their customers now? That's just not cool
  - thisisastopsign 7y ago
    Well we have run out of IPv4 and ISPs aren’t in a hurry to adopt IPv6. Also, isn’t this common in apartment complexes?
    - slenk 7y ago
      ...now that I think about it I think I was NATted before; I just wasn't smart enough to know what it was at the time. Now you have made me think. Fun fact: the college I graduated had a /16 with a student population of ~4k. Every single device got it's own public IP address.
  - rambojazz 7y ago
    That has been the case for ages. Not all ISPs do it though.

banana_giraffe 7y ago

I do wonder how their categorizations work. There are lot of things classified as Movies that are clearly TV shows. This doesn't bode well for what they call "Child Porn". If they sell the lists of these IPs, it's rather scary to think it's as reliable as their Movie or TV filters.

wtmt 7y ago

This can be used for amusement, but is in no way reliable to know what you (or anyone else) downloads. It could possibly act as a starting point to track what someone is downloading/seeding when used with other mechanisms. > How we collect data > Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 1.500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 200.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts: > Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user's ISP. For example mobile operators often used this schema. Self-explanatory, but this could also be the case for home broadband where CGNAT is used. This means your public torrent downloads (or even if you don’t have any downloads) will be seen along with many others’ downloads as a single list. > IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every time user connects to the Internet or periodically. Again, self-explanatory. Unless one obtains and uses a static addresses (not the default for most home connections), what you see here could be somewhat similar to the previous point. > User could download torrent which we don't have Aka private trackers and torrents, which is what many people who know how to torrent and do it regularly would drift towards. The torrent files from private trackers set a “private” flag that makes the torrent client disable features like DHT (distributed hash table) and PEX (peer exchange) for those torrents. So unless you have a working account on the tracker and join a swarm, you cannot find out about other peers from public sources.

lonelappde 7y ago

All I see is a generic page plastered wall to wall with ads.

thunderbong 7y ago

Why is this flagged?

c0nducktr 7y ago
Because users flagged it. A better question might be, "why did you flag this post?", although those who did won't likely see your comment. Edit: Your account is from 2012, are you still learning how this site works?
- thunderbong 7y ago
  I do know how the HN works. But I can't see who flagged it. So it's really a genuine question - I don't see anything about the site that is against the guidelines. And I'm trying to understand why whoever flagged it did so.
  - alanfranz 7y ago
    For posts, flag seems to be a proxy for the missing downvote button, to many users. Sad, but that's the way it goes.

remmargorp64 7y ago

This is why you should never torrent without using a VPN and/or seedbox. I'm partial towards put.io myself.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago

Can someone explain this: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8 ?

LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
Probably the first stages of the blue goo infiltrating our cyberphysical infrastructures. Prepare to be disassembled for scanning!

weare138 7y ago

Anyone else finding a crapton of porn? Because I'm finding crapton of porn.

LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago

Unreliable. My ISP in Hamburg, Germany recently got some Iranian and Ukrainian IPv4 space allocated. And it locates me in Aachen, about 500km/310 miles to the southwest.