Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent

markybob writes "An open-source bittorrent client, Deluge, now provides an internal, anonymizing browser to protect its users from overzealous ISPs. The client runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. From the site: "Everyone knows that it is common practice for ISPs to do their best to either block or throttle bittorrent users. We believe that this is wrong and unethical, as there are many legal uses for bittorrent. If an ISP is throttling or blocking bittorrent traffic, you can pretty much bet that they're tracking which users visit bittorrent-related sites so that they can better block or throttle those users." Their forum has more info"

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Re:Relakks, an anonymous VPN

[frinkacheese]

We believe that this is wrong and unethical, as there are many legal uses for bittorrent. If an ISP is throttling or blocking bittorrent traffic, you can pretty much bet that they're tracking which users visit bittorrent-related sites so that they can better block or throttle those users."

This is really utter rubbish. It is perfectly ethical for an ISP to throttle this traffic that sits and leaches more bandwidth than is your fair share. DSL services, unless very premium, are shared services.

Also this tracking users visiting bittorrent sites is just daft. Why would tracking user's visits to such sites aid blocking or throttling at all when there are plenty of boxes that are quite easily able to detect torrent traffic and throttle it without having to go to the trouble of tracking peoples WWW activity.

ISPs throttle torrent traffic because their businesses are built on over-booking bandwidth. If you don't like that, then you'll be paying $70 per Mb/s per month at wholesale prices and not $50 for your 8Mb/s service.

Re:Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent?

[Threni]

> To prevent abuse, Deluge's internal browser only allows you to download bittorrent files..

To guarantee we only catch pirates, we're only letting you download illegal content.