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I imagine it must be nice living in a place where your government doesn't care. Enjoy your free torrents. I'm ok with a few bucks here and there
C'mon you've plenty of private trackers you can join with an invite from someone else and nobody will easily track you like they can do in public torrents.
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ -- Plug your IP into that. Private tracker torrents are still visible to the public.
That is a shady sketchy as fuck Russian site. Please, if anyone is reading this, DO NOT access it or put your fucking IP in there.
You're a fucking moron my man. It's a site for checking if your IP can be seen by the public for torrenting. If you don't torrent, or if you're properly setup through your VPN, nothing shows up. If you are leaking torrenting data to the public, this guy catalogs it and if it sees any of that public data it'll show you what you've been torrenting -- this same data is available to hollywood and they use it to issue C&Ds, warnings through your ISP, etc.
I didn't put anything in. But I went there (on mobile). Any real risk?
It's a site that simply catalogues every IP address seen on the DHT. If you're torrenting, and you're leaking that data publicly, this site simply compares it.
https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=iknowwhatyoudownload.com
The site is registered through godaddy, and claims of it being a Russian site is simply meant as a scare tactic. Any website you connect to without a VPN immediately knows your IP address anyways - it's not some sacred thing you have to protect against people knowing.
Hell, if you're concerned with it - plug your VPNs IP into it; you'll see the torrents that others on the VPN are seeding from the IP address you're using.
If you're using it on mobile, it's not likely that anyone is torrenting on mobile, so unless someone is really doing dumb shit - it's not likely it'll list anything. It's a useful tool to have under your belt to see if your bittorrent client is leaking data.
Thank you taking the time to respond with such a detailed response. I wasn't too worried about it as I don't do my shady stuff on mobile but figured it was worth the ask.
Other than a couple of bad faith actors here and there, I've found this community to be super tolerant and helpful - thanks!