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uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions
kitamesume:
trollish page imho, the thing that should be put on the #1 as a utorrent replacement is deluge, actually deluge is better than utorrent on certain features.
avatarl:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on August 22, 2012, 01:33:53 PM ---trollish page imho, the thing that should be put on the #1 as a utorrent replacement is deluge, actually deluge is better than utorrent on certain features.
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My personal favorite is Tixati, but if I had to recommend something to the average person using utorrent, it'd be qBittorrent. I found Deluge to be buggy and there are nice options that the average user wouldn't use anyway. qBittorrent though looks a bit like utorrent, so the learning curve wouldn't be steep and it's easy enough to use.
Bob2004:
@limefc: Yeah, BitComet used to be reasonably good. Then there was that minor bug involving the private flag being ignored if the tracker was offline, followed by a bunch of other rumours which ended up getting it banned from a lot of private trackers, so it became too impractical for me (not gonna risk getting banned for spoofing my client).
That Torrentfreak list seems fairly reasonable to me. I can't even think of any other Windows bittorrent clients - at least none which are in relatively common use, and haven't been abandoned for years, so it's quite possible that clients like BitLord actually are in the top 10 best Windows clients, crap though it is.
It's not like they're saying BitLord or MediaGet are actually good alternatives to Utorrent, either - they quite clearly say BitLord is crap, and they don't recommend it.
Personally, if I had to switch clients - which I have no intention of doing for the foreseeable future - it'd most likely be to Tixati or QBittorrent. Both look like reasonably full-featured clients, but aren't too overweight.
Oh, and kitamesume: Alphabetical Order.
kitamesume:
o.o i didnt say put it on top of the list, i said put it as #1 replacement =P
Garlantec:
People can cry about Ads all they want, in my opinion it's unreasonable.
It's freeware and the ad's aren't really hurting anyone yet.
No one's charged for anything either and in all the years in which I've been using utorrent, I haven't seen any hardcore ads, which completely destroy the program beyond cure.
So far I've only seen the utorrent plus ad in the bottom right corner, which you can even blend-out by simply making 2 clicks.
Don't know what's wrong with that.
Besides, why do you care if they try to earn some money? EVERYONE needs money and obviously will try to look for a way to make some. It's totally fine. As I said before, I've been using uTorrent for ages now and never had any major troubles with it.
And I doubt you whiners had any big issues either, aside from your own incompetence maybe.
Soo.. pull that stick out of your ass and chill.
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