Iknowwhatyoudownload.com | Hacker News Reader

Iknowwhatyoudownload.com

iknowwhatyoudownload.com

47 pointsthunderbong27 comments

Jammed it into Discord, the Discord backend directly accesses the site in order to embed a summary, which places the IP the Title block. I'm now vaguely aware of the fact that, at least part of Discord's backend is running on GCP. They haven't used it to torrent anything, however.

They use GCP for storage too check the headers on Discord CDN

It only shows a manjaro iso that I downloaded months ago but does not show all the anime and doujin music I download nonstop every week

Interesting, I downloaded World of Tanks a few days ago and that is the only thing that shows up for me here. I didn't even realize that it was distributed over bittorrent.

Hmm, seems to be broken in 2022. It’s attempting to use an IPv4 address to identify me, which is obviously not unique.

Snarky and pointless reply. It's still interesting information in the United States, where CGN is rare and residences can keep the same IP address for months or years.

It's not snarky. I've had the same IP for a long time and the list it came up with was completely wrong.

I'm not sure what's broken about it but right now the info is not correct.

Fair enough. It seems that others are having the same issue. I wonder why it's happening.

Apparently someone on my ISP has same IP as me, or it has over a year old data.

Or you have a compromised device and other people are using your internet connection as a VPN.

The data on this website has been verified as wildly inaccurate by many many people. It often produces very fake data (including CSAM!) that most certainly was never downloaded from a particular IP. Sometimes it shows nothing when it should, sometimes it appears 100% accurate, sometimes it's a bit of both, and sometimes it's completely inaccurate. Never trust anything you see here, believing ANY of it could be very dangerous.

Rodger, dodger.

CGNAT

…apparently not.

I run transmission web in a docker container which connects to a VPN on startup. It can connect to many popular VPN providers. That way my home connection is for normal browsing, and all my Linux torrents are limited to that container.

https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Whoops, looks like I don't have a kill switch on my VPN.

Anyone know if one can be set up via network-manager-openvpn-gnome? I'm not very good with iptables.

I find the easiest way to set it up is using docker. Running openvpn or wireguard in a docker container (they often have a killswitch built in), then having my transmission and other docker containers use it as its network. The docker image I use for wireguard with PIA is thrnz/docker-wireguard-pia

Seeing an empty list is very reassuring to me.

Looking at it on ExpressVPN, yikes. 90% porn. I wonder what percentage of torrenting is just porn?

it’s mostly porn! I was researching some DHT crawler work recently and came across some interesting papers. Here’s a super fun high level read on someone who crawled the BitTorrent distributed hash table using a Sybil attack:

https://defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Wolc...

Why do people use a VPN for porn torrents? Do porn publishers send nasty letters to ISPs like the movie studios do?

Yes. It’s copyright in the same way.

Not a single thing on the list it came up with was correct.

Given how completely wrong it was for me I have to assume that it's worthless.

Nothing in the list. I just downloaded an archive.org torrent of 1920s music.

Completely inaccurate and extremely dangerous. Even shows alleged CSAM content on IP's I know for a fact have never torrented or are even routed to any device.

100% wrong for me.

torrent stats based on IP, cool

This is awesome from a VPN

Reply on news.ycombinator.com