Many trackers will add dummy data to prevent profiling. There is no validation to claims. It’s nice to look at, but not reliable.

Stop using DHT and/or public trackers and you will be safe. They scan public trackers and the DHT network.

>Stop using DHT and/or public trackers a

Public trackers are the only trackers most of us can reasonably use. He should get a VPN.

private trackers and warez groups are the plentiful (IPTorrents, Speed, etc) if you are a good seeder and can maintain good ratios. anyone using a public tracker in 2025 deserves anything their ISP catches them doing imo.

public trackers and torrent sites are also just 90% malware and RATs.

>private trackers and warez groups are the plentiful (

Sure. It combines all the fun of pledge week with a fraternity with the wrong-headed attitudes that became part of the culture when ftp servers were the height of technology. And you just have to schedule an interview and learn the secret knock/handshake. Don't ever invite anyone, because if they're the wrong type, you get banned for their behavior too.

>public trackers and torrent sites are also just 90% malware and RATs.

It's an mkv file. Don't double click exes.

> anyone using a public tracker in 2025 deserves anything their ISP catches them doing imo.

Or you could just use a VPN, which you probably should for private trackers too anyway.

it is my understanding that some private trackers dont allow you to use VPNs or risk a ban

Sorry, should have been more specific - I don't care if people know what I downloaded - I just wonder how stuff I definitely didn't download is attributed to my IP address. Can't be that my dynamic IP address changed, because of the small time between stuff I did download and stuff I didn't. So then, is the scanner wrong, or do I have rouge device(s) on my network?