Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

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Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

#1 Post by joby_toss »

http://www.tribler.org/

Anonymity using dedicated Tor-like network.

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-anon ... wn-141218/
While the BitTorrent ecosystem is filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology have released the first version of their anonymous and decentralized BitTorrent network. "Tribler makes BitTorrent anonymous and impossible to shut down," lead researcher Prof. Pouwelse says.
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Version tested: 6.4.0.
License: GPL (source code available on github).
Saves settings to [.Tribler] folder in AppData.
No writing into the registry.
No relative path support for download folder.
JPE works fine with it and I imagine yaP does it, too.

More info: http://www.tribler.org/faq.html

I welcome this release (especially with TPB recently being taken down and all...) and hope to see an official portable version!

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Re: Tribler

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Update: v.6.4.3 is out (sort of old news ... this happened back in February)

Interest in a Portable version seems low:
Almost 3 years later, any news about a portable version yet?
http://forum.tribler.org/viewtopic.php?t=1727

Nothing from PA yet either: http://portableapps.com/node/13543

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Re: Tribler vs Popcorn Time

#3 Post by Midas »

It's just me, or does Tribbler's interface look remarkably similar to Popcorn Time? :twisted:

BTW, currently there are two different versions of Popcorn Time:

The later has some portability info at http://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/issues/43, which would translate roughly to the following batch:

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SET conf=%~dp0ptconf
START "" %~dp0Popcorn-Time.exe --data-path=%conf%
[2018-05-16 EDIT: Softpedia page for 'official' version at www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Streaming/Popcorn-Time-Desktop.shtml]

popcorntime

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Re: Tribler

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Tribler Portable v. 6.4.3 is out (June 20, 2015)
- web site: http://www.thumbapps.blogspot.com
- ThumbApps.blogspot program page: http://www.thumbapps.blogspot.com/2015/ ... table.html
- Sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumbap ... rce=navbar
- Sourceforge internet tools page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumbap ... /Internet/
- Sourceforge Tribler Portable direct download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumbap ... e/download
- archive size: MB 39.4

btw # 1
this program is multilanguage and use PortableApps platform.

btw # 2
Windows firewall ask You to allow run this program: Tribler uses private Tor nets.
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Re: Tribler

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rbon wrote:- thumbapps.blogspot.com
I'm hesitant to trust this site. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with Tribler, they're just using the PAF format to repackage various programs without listing the source. That's not necessarily bad but:
  • They're offering a portable version of Paint.NET, whose license has a restriction here: "...you may not distribute modified copies of Paint.NET." (http://www.getpaint.net/license.html)
  • They're offering Silverlight Portable, which I strongly suspect isn't legal. Microsoft has never been very nice about redistribution of their tools.
There might be other issues but I didn't dig much past that.

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Re: Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

#6 Post by smaragdus »

Unfortunately the portable version of Tribler from ThumbApps is not really portable- it writes to 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\.Tribler' .

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Re: Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

#7 Post by webfork »

joby_toss wrote:Saves settings to [.Tribler] folder in AppData.
Portable request up on Github: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/1761

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Re: Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

#8 Post by Midas »

Topic update: Tribler v7.8.0 released 2021-02-16 (changelog at https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases).

Sadly, apart from a promise to "try to prioritize this after the 7.5 release" no new info on portability.

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