• @vodka@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because if you live in oppressive countries without privacy laws, your ISP can/will also rat you out. Like the USA.

    • @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      01 year ago

      On a private tracker my ISP knows the domain name of my tracker, and, the IP addresses of the peers I downloaded from. They do not know any of the content, unless they join the site AND seed the content in question.