If uTorrent has no haters, I am dead
Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.
at least 15 years lol
I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
didn’t realize people were still using utorrent. been at least a decade since it was decent
uTorrent’s brand recognition is crazy, it’s been crap for years and it still the name people who don’t torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
But is the statement correct? What’s the story behind uTorrent?
μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc.
That should be enough for any sane person. A proprietary bittorrent client is the worst joke i have heard in a while.
Yes. It stopped being good around 2010-2012 depending on who you ask. Unfortunately there are still plenty of old blog posts praising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent
The parent company, bittorrent Inc got purchased by a serial crypto scammer Justin Sun at some point.
In March 2022, the SEC charged Rainberry with fraud for selling cryptocurrencies Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) as unregistered securities.
I think the SEC dropped all charges recently because the literal US government got on the payroll of Tether Inc, which basically runs the crypto show. Justin is just one of the appendages to the scheme.
After uTorrent was brought by BitTorrent Inc, they started releasing new shady versions, first added ads then released uTorrent bundle with crypto mining software without user consent
https://torrentfreak.com/new-utorrent-release-breaks-ties-with-bitcoin-miner-150413/
Do people still use transmission? That seems like be the default one I see in prebuilt torrent server containers.
It’s not bad but it’s pretty bare. People like their bells and whistles these days.
Transmission’s minimal features is what I like about it.
transmission-cli path-to.torrent😍
speak for yourself. if it’s pretty bare, it just moved to the top of my list
