I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?

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    Someone else who uses the same VPN as I is really into butt stuff. I have to question their commitment to 480p though.

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    I love this website. It’s usually pretty accurate, except for…

    Two big hard monster cocks pumped up Marilyn Crystal gaping ass & pussy FS033 sd.mp4

    MyDaughtersHotFriend.23.06.07.Freya.Von.Doom.XXX.1080p.HEVC.x265.PRT[XvX]

    I think I’d remember those…

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    And this is why - all together now - “An IP is not an ID”. They don’t know what you’ve downloaded; they know what some number of IP addresses have downloaded from some trackers at some points, and you might be have been assigned one of those IPs after the fact. They aren’t useful, alone.

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    Home internet was empty. Mobile internet has a few Marvel movies and shit like that. VPN has child porn.

    Feels pretty icky to share the same ip as some people downloading those lame ass movies

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    How bizarre, none of the items on the list were actually things I downloaded, and none of the things I downloaded were on the list.

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      Public perception isn’t aware of the dynamic and changing nature of most IP addresses.

      Once you are though it’s easy to see why the site might not work or even show incorrect results.

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      Must be the server you are connecting to. Most of mine is not porn like Last Week Tonight and the stuff that is porn is pretty vanilla stuff like Hookup Hotshots and Kinky Family.

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    *Results my vary in accuracy due to the nature of dynamic, Shared, or incorrectly assigned IP Addresses.

    Also

    *Results only included from Public trackers, private trackers do not show up.

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    It is always a joy to see what my virtual neighbors download… Some have a very refined… Taste.

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      Mine was full of stuff, all of it incorrect. Which I assume means my VPN is doing its job lol

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    I don’t use a VPN and the list that comes up for me here isn’t remotely accurate

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    I’ll admit, this spooked me, but for different reasons than the OP and most comments.

    I didn’t recognize any of the downloads, even though I have a publicly routable static IP and don’t use a VPN (I have a domain and self host so I know my IP hast changed in years).

    I use exclusively private trackers, and nothing I’ve actually downloaded showed up, and the things that did were sporadic—one every couple days or so, first/last seen times identical, random torrents. I started asking myself if I had a rogue device in my network, so I checked logs and stats—nothing unusual (I think…I hope…hard to tell sometimes).

    I looked more into how this site tracks peers, and it seems they have different levels of confidence. Their first API tier (peer API) is a “best guess” and this is based on listening to the DHT and PeX networks for their known torrents. I’m guessing their website uses this or a combination of this with their other APIs. I looked at my torrent config and saw I hadn’t disabled DHT/PeX and had a couple idle public torrents.

    Not positive on this, but I think there can be false positives if your torrent box participates in DHT/PeX even if it doesn’t actually download said torrents. Can anyone confirm this?

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    Sites like these are always useless, they never showed jack shit for me. Because I don’t use public trackers I stick with private ones and those stupid Bots don’t have access to private trackers

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        There are plenty of good ones out there, but be ready to invest a lot of time getting into them. The accounts I have I have had for over 10 years and it took probably a good 2 to 3 years to actually get into those better places. You have to actually build up a reputation of maintaining good ratio at smaller sites and get invited by a member. It’s a pain in the ass but it’s also worth it, way better content, way better speeds

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        Try to find a place with open registration or someone whose got a spare invite. Ive managed to get into a couple. But to get into the better private trackers it takes time building up your intro private tracker accounts.

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    I haven’t used torrents for years, and it’s showing stuff. Not on a VPN currently, and it’s showing the wrong location (a bit outside my city).

    Anyone know why?

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      If you would like a more technical explanation search for CG-NAT. It allows ISP’s to share a single static public facing IP with several customers at once.

      If you had a true static IP that never changed you’ve only see results about torrents downloaded using your router.

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    Heads up, this website doesn’t get data on stuff you download from private trackers, only public.