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Once WebTorrent is ubiquitous among desktop and headless clients, the networks will become a lot stronger. Especially for applications like BitChute and for any

Once WebTorrent is ubiquitous among desktop and headless clients, the networks will become a lot stronger. Especially for applications like BitChute and for anyone who copies their approach. It solves a major problem with the cost of baseline hosting vs. hosting at scale.

amelius 6y ago
The problem is that many people will want to run bittorrent over a VPN connection, while they'd like to run their normal browser data over their normal (low-latency) internet connection.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement which is unfortunately a big part of its usage right now, however if torrents become as seamless as HTTP (like not requiring a separate client) I can see them becoming widely used for totally legitimate purposes. Torrents can be a great, standardized way of delivering updates for example, and network administrators can easily deploy a platform-agnostic way to deliver & cache updates on their network by just deploying a torrent client somewhere and their fleet would automatically discover them (using local peer discovery) instead of having to deploy multiple proprietary, platform-specific solutions.
  - olah_1 6y ago
    > You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement I think they're just assuming that you don't want everyone to know exactly what you're doing online at all times by exposing your IP to everyone and their brother that uploads a resource.
    - gsnedders 6y ago
      This. It's a privacy nightmare. It essentially broadcasts to arbitrary other internet users find out what resources you've accessed. That's… pretty dire.
- jaekash 6y ago
  More flexibility in proxy configuration will make this easier to overcome, and there are already some plugins for Firefox which allows specifying specific proxies for specific sites.

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Once WebTorrent is ubiquitous among desktop and headless clients, the networks will become a lot stronger. Especially for applications like BitChute and for any

by microcolonel 6y ago

amelius 6y ago
The problem is that many people will want to run bittorrent over a VPN connection, while they'd like to run their normal browser data over their normal (low-latency) internet connection.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement which is unfortunately a big part of its usage right now, however if torrents become as seamless as HTTP (like not requiring a separate client) I can see them becoming widely used for totally legitimate purposes. Torrents can be a great, standardized way of delivering updates for example, and network administrators can easily deploy a platform-agnostic way to deliver & cache updates on their network by just deploying a torrent client somewhere and their fleet would automatically discover them (using local peer discovery) instead of having to deploy multiple proprietary, platform-specific solutions.
  - olah_1 6y ago
    > You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement I think they're just assuming that you don't want everyone to know exactly what you're doing online at all times by exposing your IP to everyone and their brother that uploads a resource.
    - gsnedders 6y ago
      This. It's a privacy nightmare. It essentially broadcasts to arbitrary other internet users find out what resources you've accessed. That's… pretty dire.
- jaekash 6y ago
  More flexibility in proxy configuration will make this easier to overcome, and there are already some plugins for Firefox which allows specifying specific proxies for specific sites.