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https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

ramraj07 6y ago
Super funny because this shows approximately five or six different people's downloads for my ip address from their porn tastes, movie language preferences, etc
- squarefoot 6y ago
  It has some delay and dynamic timed IPs do the rest.
donmcronald 6y ago
That says I downloaded ssni-845-C.mp4 7GB (XXX) three days ago, but I didn't. WTF is that all about?
- thekyle 6y ago
  Someone else must have downloaded it from your current IP address.
  - donmcronald 6y ago
    That's extremely unlikely. It says last seen at 8:30 AM on Thursday which makes no sense. I have a dedicated VLAN that routed over a VPN for anything not 100% super legit.
    - ncmncm 6y ago
      You must be somebody else's VPN. As it were. There are plenty of uses for pwned machines. Since they are free, the uses don't even need to makes sense.
      - gruez 6y ago
        No, I ran a test through two linux VPSes that I control, and both of them show me downloading something I didn't. I'm reasonably sure that neither of my boxes were compromised, although if we want confirmation we can get someone who works at a hosting company to check with an IP that hasn't been routed in months. I posed a explanation in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256890
- throw0101a 6y ago
  > WTF is that all about? Doing a Google search… someone likes the acting abilities of Yua Mikami.
  - donmcronald 6y ago
    I've got to call bullshit on that site. It comes up with a "likes porn" tag, claims porn downloads, and has a huge VPN ad at the top. That's seems like sketchy, fake, scareware tactics to me.
    - gruez 6y ago
      AFAIK trackers would randomly put IP addresses into the peer lists that they return, to provide plausible deniability for everyone[1]. If the site just grabs the peer list without validating them (ie. attempting a connection), that might be responsible for the false positives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker
- xfer 6y ago
  Dynamic IP or CGNAT by your ISP.
  - donmcronald 6y ago
    Nope. DHCP IP, but they're effectively static. It hasn't changed for 2 years.
- MertsA 6y ago
  As others have already mentioned, some trackers poison the well with random IP addresses so that getting peer lists from trackers alone is not confirmation that that peer actually is sharing that torrent.
throw0101a 6y ago
And this is why I use the built-in reboot functionality on my (Asus) router: getting a new IP address every day helps improve privacy. I use Safari as my daily browser and have cookies blocked by default, allowing them only when I need to log into a site (e.g., posting a comment on HN or Reddit, banking stuff). If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question.
- dastx 6y ago
  Except if they have a time and date, and IP, your ISP will know who that IP belonged to at that time. No fingerprinting necessary.
  - jlgaddis 6y ago
    Unless your ISP employed a very privacy-focused person like me who had set up a daily cronjob that deleted these logs once they were no longer needed.
    - rolph 6y ago
      thank you for your service
    - bitxbitxbitcoin 6y ago
      More ISPs need employees like you.
  - throw0101a 6y ago
    > Except if they have a time and date, and IP, your ISP will know who that IP belonged to at that time. No fingerprinting necessary. As I wrote IN MY POST: > If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question. If I really want to hide my activities I will use Tor, but for the day-to-day stuff of avoiding ad trackers a daily reboot and cookies-off setting is Good Enough™ (for me).
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oedmarap 6y ago
Nice tool! At least now I know the egress IP of my Lightsail/EC2 instance running WireGuard has zero history when it comes to torrent traffic. I always switch from my personal to a commercial VPN if I need to do anything that could be construed as questionable, or whenever I need both privacy as well as anonymity.

Super funny because this shows approximately five or six different people's downloads for my ip address from their porn tastes, movie language preferences, etc

squarefoot 6y ago
It has some delay and dynamic timed IPs do the rest.

donmcronald 6y ago

That says I downloaded ssni-845-C.mp4 7GB (XXX) three days ago, but I didn't. WTF is that all about?

thekyle 6y ago
Someone else must have downloaded it from your current IP address.
- donmcronald 6y ago
  That's extremely unlikely. It says last seen at 8:30 AM on Thursday which makes no sense. I have a dedicated VLAN that routed over a VPN for anything not 100% super legit.
  - ncmncm 6y ago
    You must be somebody else's VPN. As it were. There are plenty of uses for pwned machines. Since they are free, the uses don't even need to makes sense.
    - gruez 6y ago
      No, I ran a test through two linux VPSes that I control, and both of them show me downloading something I didn't. I'm reasonably sure that neither of my boxes were compromised, although if we want confirmation we can get someone who works at a hosting company to check with an IP that hasn't been routed in months. I posed a explanation in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256890
throw0101a 6y ago
> WTF is that all about? Doing a Google search… someone likes the acting abilities of Yua Mikami.
- donmcronald 6y ago
  I've got to call bullshit on that site. It comes up with a "likes porn" tag, claims porn downloads, and has a huge VPN ad at the top. That's seems like sketchy, fake, scareware tactics to me.
  - gruez 6y ago
    AFAIK trackers would randomly put IP addresses into the peer lists that they return, to provide plausible deniability for everyone[1]. If the site just grabs the peer list without validating them (ie. attempting a connection), that might be responsible for the false positives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker
xfer 6y ago
Dynamic IP or CGNAT by your ISP.
- donmcronald 6y ago
  Nope. DHCP IP, but they're effectively static. It hasn't changed for 2 years.
MertsA 6y ago
As others have already mentioned, some trackers poison the well with random IP addresses so that getting peer lists from trackers alone is not confirmation that that peer actually is sharing that torrent.

throw0101a 6y ago

And this is why I use the built-in reboot functionality on my (Asus) router: getting a new IP address every day helps improve privacy. I use Safari as my daily browser and have cookies blocked by default, allowing them only when I need to log into a site (e.g., posting a comment on HN or Reddit, banking stuff). If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question.

dastx 6y ago
Except if they have a time and date, and IP, your ISP will know who that IP belonged to at that time. No fingerprinting necessary.
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  Unless your ISP employed a very privacy-focused person like me who had set up a daily cronjob that deleted these logs once they were no longer needed.
  - rolph 6y ago
    thank you for your service
  - bitxbitxbitcoin 6y ago
    More ISPs need employees like you.
- throw0101a 6y ago
  > Except if they have a time and date, and IP, your ISP will know who that IP belonged to at that time. No fingerprinting necessary. As I wrote IN MY POST: > If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question. If I really want to hide my activities I will use Tor, but for the day-to-day stuff of avoiding ad trackers a daily reboot and cookies-off setting is Good Enough™ (for me).

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oedmarap 6y ago

Nice tool! At least now I know the egress IP of my Lightsail/EC2 instance running WireGuard has zero history when it comes to torrent traffic. I always switch from my personal to a commercial VPN if I need to do anything that could be construed as questionable, or whenever I need both privacy as well as anonymity.