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Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There are more ways to detect than peer ID.

This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it's mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.