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Comment by chatmasta

Totally unrelated, but something I've been wondering for a while. Isn't the whole point of magnet links that they use a distributed hash table (DHT)? Why do they need trackers appended to the URL? Is it strictly necessary, or does it just help in bootstrapping the DHT?

I always remove those when downloading torrents because I'm paranoid they're obvious markings of torrent traffic, more-so than DHT connections.

parent chatmasta 8 years ago

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