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This site is actually pretty useless imo - I have a static IP, I've had it for years, and I'm the only user of the IP. It shows me as recently torrenting a ton
by minimaul 3y ago
This site is actually pretty useless imo - I have a static IP, I've had it for years, and I'm the only user of the IP.
It shows me as recently torrenting a ton of content that I've never even heard of, and definitely haven't done.
Either someone's poisoning the data at trackers (TPB used to do this?), or they're just making stuff up...
- subtra3t 3y agoIt suowed me something thet I was torrenting, a pretty niche video game. So I doubt that its making stuff up.
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- vasdae 3y agoThe site has always been very reliable for me, so I have bad news for you.
- mrweasel 3y agoSo.... my wife is downloading "Weapons of Ass Destruction" 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7... and House Of Ass 8?
- vasdae 3y agoOr maybe your wifi is not as private as you think it is.
- mrweasel 3y agoThat was my initial thinking, but there are no unknown devices connected to the router. What I suspect has happened is that I've been given a new IP some time within the last few days and the data on the site isn't exactly live. There might also be something in how the data is collected and how Bittorrent works, so some else had this IP a few days back and there are still Bittorrent clients that are trying to connect and that might be what the site is seeing. Bittorrent might also be much more popular than I expected, because almost every IP around mine seems to be torrenting something. But I think it's due to short leases on IPs because it seems unlikely to me that 8 out 10 is using Bittorrent.
- Hamuko 3y agoI think I need to start investigating what devices are connecting to my router since mine doesn't look accurate either. Hopefully this is just false data and not my neighbours since I don't particularly want to know what porn they're downloading.
- brap 3y agoDamn, she's a keeper
- WHYLEE1991 3y agobetter than her jumping straight to 8 and being completely lost on the plot
- alimbada 3y agoNo, it's actually very unreliable. I haven't used BT in ages and yet it shows I've been downloading in the last 2 weeks.
- phaer 3y agoSame here
- boredumb 3y agoIt seems legit for me and i've been on this static IP for 10 months and only downloaded some old NATGEO magazines that they're showing. I'd at least check no one is using your wireless, check the dates & see if someone is using a "free" VPN or something malicious?
- minimaul 3y agoI'm the only user on this internet connection, I am pretty restrictive with what I run, my Unifi controller shows no unexpected devices in the last month (and that covers the time window the site claims), and my librenms graphs of my router's interfaces don't show any traffic spikes at the times the site claims that a torrent client was last seen. edit: and I've been the only user of this static IP for a decade at this point. I'd say that's pretty conclusive?
- boredumb 3y agoLooking around for some explanation and ending up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT I can only assume your public IP is actually shared with your neighbors and it's not you, your wife or a hackerman downloading naughty films.
- pm3003 3y agoApproximately the same case here. I'm thinking the dates are not completely precise. Also the site shows announces and tracker requests, so there's no need for the whole stuff to have been downloaded. Requesting torrent info through a magnet link should land you on this page. I share an IP with one person but the stuff showed (a dozen or so torrents) does not really check out: porn and genshin impact stuff (pretty common I guess), series in Korean and Russian, movies in Italian. I live in France, and neighbouring IPs show a few movies or video games in French. I'll definitely double check my networks and Unifi controller for unexpected connection or torrenting. Parts of my network are less secured than others, but I pay close attention to the traffic...
- Rastonbury 3y agoI don't have a static IP but mine changes every few months, and the site is still accurate for me
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- yread 3y agoFor me it shows nothing and I've definitely been downloading, sometimes even seeding, ... something ...
- prepend 3y agoSame here. But for private trackers the traffic is basically “invisible” as the whole point of private trackers is to keep out snoopers and whatnot. It’s kind of interesting how well these private, trust-based networks work. While there are some they get breached, based on my experience there are many that exist for decades and have thousands of strangers cooperating toward a common goal, in shared secret. It gives me hope that humanity is largely “below the surface” of productive groups quietly meeting and doing stuff. And it’s not visible because they aren’t tweeting. This gives me joy compared to the more visible alternative that the whole world is an idiot because idiots are constantly tweeting.
- BagelGuy 3y agoI've never thought about it this way but it makes a lot of sense. In a world where it looks like everyone is tweeting there are actually a lot of people not tweeting, you just don't hear about them because, well, they aren't tweeting!
- prepend 3y agoI’m not sure the name of the fallacy, but there’s a common urge to assume what’s measurable is real. So in statistics you have to really design your sample well. But frequently whatever is nearby can still be useful for selling ads or whatever so people get used to using it for everything. Back in the olden days people would mock others who quoted a random twitterer who said “George Bush thinks xyz” but now that’s like half of all the news stories.
- Dah00n 3y agoTrackers do poison the data, but if a lot is showing up, then I'd doubt you are the only user of the IP or that your network is secure. I do use torrents, but only private sites, and there are zero data on my IP. Lots and lots of data on all the neighbouring IPs.
- minimaul 3y agoOnly 5 entries this time, so I favour poisoned data, personally. edit: it always shows random stuff every time this one comes up!
- extraduder_ire 3y agoAny source on trackers poisoning this data? I assume if that were common, requesting a few blocks from a provided IP address could let you know if they're really seeding that torrent. Adding fake entries from certain IP ranges would be quite funny, and a good example of the data not being trustworthy.
- Dah00n 3y agoI read somewhere the Pirate bay did it, but I can't remember where. I'll add it if it turns up, but that was a long, long time ago.
- pebble 3y agoSame, 99% of the list is complete nonsense for my static IP I've had for 10 years, and I guarantee no one is using this network I'm not aware of.
- protomolecule 3y agoI have a static IP and all the torrents seen by iknowwhatyoudownload since October, 31 are definitely not mine. All the torrents before that day look familiar.
- JeremyNT 3y agoI too am seeing a bunch of downloads listed here, none of which are known to me. Either I've got some unauthorized use of my network or this data is invalid. Clicking through on their site to the "IP List" for any of the entries it claims are associated with me, my address is not included there.
- Jigsy 3y agoChances are you're not the only person with that IP due to IPv4 exhaustion. At least that's my theory.