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53 pointsmelzarei38 comments

This can be used for amusement, but is in no way reliable to know what you (or anyone else) downloads. It could possibly act as a starting point to track what someone is downloading/seeding when used with other mechanisms.

> How we collect data

> Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network. We have more than 1.500.000 torrents which where classified and which are using now for collecting peer sharing facts (up to 200.000.000 daily). We don't guarantee we can show ALL peer sharing facts:

> Single IP address could be assigned to multiple users. It depends on user's ISP. For example mobile operators often used this schema.

Self-explanatory, but this could also be the case for home broadband where CGNAT is used. This means your public torrent downloads (or even if you don’t have any downloads) will be seen along with many others’ downloads as a single list.

> IP address could be dynamic. In such case it changes every time user connects to the Internet or periodically.

Again, self-explanatory. Unless one obtains and uses a static addresses (not the default for most home connections), what you see here could be somewhat similar to the previous point.

> User could download torrent which we don't have

Aka private trackers and torrents, which is what many people who know how to torrent and do it regularly would drift towards. The torrent files from private trackers set a “private” flag that makes the torrent client disable features like DHT (distributed hash table) and PEX (peer exchange) for those torrents. So unless you have a working account on the tracker and join a swarm, you cannot find out about other peers from public sources.

Can someone explain this:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8

Probably the first stages of the blue goo infiltrating our cyberphysical infrastructures. Prepare to be disassembled for scanning!

Not a single one of the links listed is correct for me. (And I am not NAT'd.)

Likewise.

unless you pay extra for a static ip, there's bound to be false-positives on a site like this.

I've had the same IP for months now.

Multiple homes/routers/connections can be assigned the same IP.

They said they aren’t behind CGNAT

Clicking through on a particular torrent, till I get the IP list for that torrent, my IP doesn't actually show on that list.

So I suspect a bug in the display, perhaps if you download nothing, it shows incorrect info?

I downloaded some stuff the other day and it shows up fine for me.

I do wonder how their categorizations work. There are lot of things classified as Movies that are clearly TV shows. This doesn't bode well for what they call "Child Porn". If they sell the lists of these IPs, it's rather scary to think it's as reliable as their Movie or TV filters.

MacOS Mojave/Safari, Toronto, Canada. Dunno why, but I got nothing.

I just didn’t see anything in the list. shrug I guess it didn’t work for me.

You're not downloading popular torrents on public trackers?

Is that surprising? I would assume the vast majority of people don’t download torrents if I had to guess.

Not at all, I was proposing why the list would be empty.

I'm in Toronto too :p It got one of my shows on there, eek

Well that was pretty interesting. Nothing listed for my external IP as I expected. But I hopped onto one of my VPN providers endpoints and got a huge list - mostly TV shows, movies, and porn. Not exactly unexpected but still neat to see.

I believe now that you're on the list they'll track what you download?

I think they have just been joining the most active torrents on popular trackers. You can't watch for what somebody torrents just with their IP address, you have to be watching the torrent itself.

Unreliable. My ISP in Hamburg, Germany recently got some Iranian and Ukrainian IPv4 space allocated. And it locates me in Aachen, about 500km/310 miles to the southwest.

Well, not sure what I expected, but my (dynamic) IP was used about a week ago to download a porn torrent and it's the only item listed.

This is why you should never torrent without using a VPN and/or seedbox. I'm partial towards put.io myself.

Anyone else finding a crapton of porn? Because I'm finding crapton of porn.

Does this work for anyone?

I mean, it shows me results. I have no idea if its correct. I am working from a co-working space and it shows that someone on this IP has torrented a couple of xxx films.

It shows some of my torrent downloads tangled with tons of other torrent downloads that are not mine. Looks like it's showing all downloads for a particular IP and my ISP uses shared IP for multiple customers.

Wait what, ISPs NAT their customers now?

That's just not cool

Well we have run out of IPv4 and ISPs aren’t in a hurry to adopt IPv6. Also, isn’t this common in apartment complexes?

...now that I think about it I think I was NATted before; I just wasn't smart enough to know what it was at the time. Now you have made me think.

Fun fact: the college I graduated had a /16 with a student population of ~4k. Every single device got it's own public IP address.

That has been the case for ages. Not all ISPs do it though.

All I see is a generic page plastered wall to wall with ads.

Nothing for me on my static ip

Redirects from https to http.

Why is this flagged?

Because users flagged it.

A better question might be, "why did you flag this post?", although those who did won't likely see your comment.

Edit: Your account is from 2012, are you still learning how this site works?

I do know how the HN works. But I can't see who flagged it. So it's really a genuine question - I don't see anything about the site that is against the guidelines. And I'm trying to understand why whoever flagged it did so.

For posts, flag seems to be a proxy for the missing downvote button, to many users. Sad, but that's the way it goes.

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