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Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.ml
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So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent.

I didn't think much of it. How could one be so much better than the other? They're both just torrent downloaders.

Holy shit was I wrong. I don't even really understand what is happening, but downloading torrents on QBitTorrent is so, so, so much faster and I don't even understand how.

A movie downloads in basically seconds compared to 10 or 20 minutes on uTorrent.

Why is this? What is this magic? What makes QBitTorrent so much faster?

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[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Among other things, utorrent uses your CPU for some kind of crypto mining scheme.

No joke

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, really? Source?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Article is from 2015 with the torrent makers reply update that such systems come from third party install packagers, not theirs.

I have been using the client for years and nothing happens unless it is downloading something. This is simply false.

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Classic cryptomining malware smh 😑