I know what you downloaded

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Today we will talk about a very interesting site that will make us understand the importance of VPNs and the fragility of online anonymity. I know what you downloaded is our free translation of IKnowWhatYouDownload i.e. I know what you downloaded (from torrent).

We'll leave you right away the site to click, it might interest you if every now and then download torrents. If we have intrigued or scared you, we will try to summarize what happens below.

Now, there should be three options:

• You haven't found anything. This site is based on IP address, you have a dynamic IP address that changes often and therefore it did not recognize you. They also have a huge database (over 1,500,000 torrents) but it doesn't mean that your torrent is inside;

• you found a lot of porn that you didn't remember downloading. If you are behind a VPN it's normal, you have someone else's IP who is probably using the same VPN to download them! If you are not behind a VPN your roommate should get his act together (or at least share them with you);

• the most disturbing option: there are indeed some torrents that you have downloaded in the last 30 days.

I know what you downloaded thanks to your IP address

As we said, this site is not based on any Trackers, Cookies, Fingerprinting or whatever but only and exclusively on the recognition of the IP address.

The possibility of recognizing some downloaded torrents depends a lot on the type of connection you use. The feeling you get when you are actually recognized for having downloaded some torrents can be quite destabilizing because when we are on the internet we never think that we are actually leaving dozens and dozens of traces to be recognized.

But what is this torrent?

A .torrent file is a BitTorrent file extension and allows you to, in short, share files on the Internet via a peer-to-peer protocol (what is a protocol?) It allows us to easily share files with other people. And, through some simple dedicated search engines, it is also possible to find what others have decided to share with us. Torrents are mostly used for piracy but not only. For example you can download us Gimp and also several Linux distributions.

I know what you downloaded

What not everyone knows is how easy it is to be tracked and this site shows us a practical example of this. What we want to do with these articles is to make you understand the fragility of online privacy and how extremely easy it is to be recognized in some way. For this reason we think it is right to have greater awareness and awareness of one's online life and not leave everything in the hands of a private company that could to analyze And know everything about us (Hey Google, find me some alternatives to Google).

If this has worried you enough, one of the solutions could be to always use a VPN connection when you decide to download torrent files. A practical, fast and secure VPN is that of ProtonVPN (which we already know for ProtonMail). Even in its free version it is truly exceptional. Among other things it was recently released in version Open source and verified by third parties. If you plan to use it often, you could take the plunge and get the package ProtonMail+ProtonVPN.

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