if I went to a library or something, and torrent a file, nobody would be able to tell who it was as its a public place and the library couldn’t be held accountable. thoughts?
Mainly I just use the one built-in to settings of Gnome, I never torrented on public wifi (most public wifi I’ve used is too slow to download without chewing up all the bandwith) but the MAC address randomizer seems to work very well, even with the ones that use timed paywalls (where they let you use it for a time then lock your MAC address out and ask you to pay).
In this day and age everyone should be using a MAC address spoofer, especially on Public Wifi, many of them track mac addresses and impose limits based on time and data usage.
If you’ve ever been using public Wifi and noticed it got slow or stops working after a time, that’s why. Some will even be up-front about it by asking you to pay for it after a time.
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damn. could you use a mac address spoofer?
I don’t have experience with them, so I’m not too sure how they work or how reliably they work.
Mainly I just use the one built-in to settings of Gnome, I never torrented on public wifi (most public wifi I’ve used is too slow to download without chewing up all the bandwith) but the MAC address randomizer seems to work very well, even with the ones that use timed paywalls (where they let you use it for a time then lock your MAC address out and ask you to pay).
on windows, use tmac
on linux, there’s one called macchanger…
In this day and age everyone should be using a MAC address spoofer, especially on Public Wifi, many of them track mac addresses and impose limits based on time and data usage.
If you’ve ever been using public Wifi and noticed it got slow or stops working after a time, that’s why. Some will even be up-front about it by asking you to pay for it after a time.