Re: Trixie shipping an unstable beta version of Transmission
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2025-08-14 at 12:49 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > These trackers keep a whitelist of allowed clients based on the exact
> > version.
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> Considering how easy it is to fake version numbers, this seems like a
> really misguided & broken-by-design policy.
>
> Is there any reason why they do this?
Technically they just allow the specific clients, how they check it
isn't really specified but of course checking the version number would
be the first step... I'm sure there are other types of fingerprints. I
assume they mostly just want a written policy to be able to ban users
who cheat.
The reasons I've seen is that beta clients occasionally have bugs that
causes a lot of problems for these trackers, and I guess they just
don't want to deal with the problems, they have enough problems
fighting users trying to cheat. Non-beta clients can also be removed
from the whitelists due to bugs or other problems.
Not saying I'm a fan, and not every tracker does it, but I'm not going
to complain much for a volunteer-driven service. Nor am I in any way
an expert on this, I only repeat whatever little I've read in the
forums.
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