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There is something that tells me that users that care about if this track them or not, well they should use the version just before utorrent got bought hehe

heh- why?

I've never seen a simple shred of evidence that supports this "the new uTorrent is spying on my downloadzz!!" drivel. Stop spreading this lie until there's evidence for it.

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just felt like adding this, the guy that makes leecher mods for uttorrent(and others i think),(forget his name right now) mentioned in his 1.7.5 custom version that he removed spying stuff or something like that.

i'll look it up tonight, but other than that i haven't seen much/any evidence of them spying on people.

EDIT: got it!

CALL HOME IN ALL MODS REMOVED !!!

the guy's name is seba14 and i got that from the readme in the 1.7.5 leecher pack.

i dunno why he would put it if he didn't find something :unsure:

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just felt like adding this, the guy that makes leecher mods for uttorrent(and others i think),(forget his name right now) mentioned in his 1.7.5 custom version that he removed spying stuff or something like that.

i'll look it up tonight, but other than that i haven't seen much/any evidence of them spying on people.

EDIT: got it!

the guy's name is seba14 and i got that from the readme in the 1.7.5 leecher pack.

i dunno why he would put it if he didn't find something :unsure:

hmm, I may stand corrected but I'd still prefer something more concrete :p

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mentioned in his 1.7.5 custom version that he removed spying stuff or something like that.

could you please be a lot more specific with this stuff?. Because that would be like a "serious" (note the quotes) accusation that uT are in fact spying people. There is any proof we can see of that? Or is just another guy who "hack" the client to freeleech from torrent sites?

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read my edit, if you want to verify this yourself, go to seba14.org and look for the 1.7.5 leecher pack and read the readme within.

i'm not saying i know for a fact that he did do anything, but unless he's just bored and decided to play off people's paranoia(very possible), then why would he put that note in there?

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look for the 1.7.5 leecher pack

what I said early, this is just an excuse to leech and get banned, heh...

Till then we dont have a REAL proof (with traffic dump and stuff) we dont know.

btw

Changes in ?Torrent Version 1.8 alpha (build 7491), 2008-01-03:

- Feature: add Copy to the Logger tab context menu

- Change: only use "B" for sizes, not rates

- Fix: IPv6 resolution for DNS names

- Fix: intermittent DNS failures

- Fix: stall in (un)choker at startup

- Fix: crash with large numbers of sockets

- Fix: string corruption on Win98

http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent...ha-7491.upx.exe

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Changes in ?Torrent Version 1.8 alpha (build 7593), 2008-01-06:

- Feature: Interval and Min Interval (non-default) columns for Trackers tab

- Feature: context menu for Trackers tab

- Feature: "Selected Size" column for main listctrl - displays total size - skipped size

- Change: Reworked preferences dialog

- Change: New opening dialog/wizard with speed guide/setup combination

- Change: peer id parsing for (lol) LimeWire

- Change: Remove a previous fix for custom taskbar/title icons, as it make some existing ones choose the wrong format

- Change: If a default download directory is chosen, torrents automatically added from the autoload directory will never pop up the add torrent dialog

- Change: An error is now shown if there is a autoload directory, a custom torrent storage directory is not chosen, and the autoload directory matches the settings directory

- Change: use CONNECT for peer connections through HTTP style proxies

- Change: "Seeding only"/pink scheduler mode, available before when shift was held down, is now part of the normal scheduler click rotation

- Change: In places where the infinity symbol was printed, nothing is printed

- Fix: reverse DNS resolution with old-style tracker responses

- Fix: search string corruption on Win98

- Fix: resolve host to report to tracker before any tracker requests

- Fix: CONNECT requests to "HTTPS" style proxies (peer connections now work)

- Fix: communication with trackers that only parse the first TCP packet (fix your trackers please!)

- Fix: trackers stuck in "updating..." if UPnP was enabled but not functioning

- Fix: negative "Remaining" value if files are skipped after they are completed

- Fix: When a second instance is started while uTorrent is shutting down, it will now wait for the first instance to finish then continue, rather then silently quitting

http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent...ha-7593.upx.exe

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--- 2008-01-09: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7676)

- Feature: tracker tab context menu now operates on all selected items

- Fix: remove leftover firewall entry on install

http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent...ha-7676.upx.exe

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@ M2Ys4U

yep xD

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And another two builds (since the last posted)

?Torrent 1.8 alpha 7785>

--- 2008-01-12: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7785)

- Fix: crash on Win98 when making a temp file

- Fix: Crash when showing speed guide by itself

--- 2008-01-11: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7777)

- Feature: Add Tracker and Use DHT menu items in tracker tab context menu

- Feature: Setup Windows Firewall option in installer (prompts for elevation on Vista, assumes admin access on XP)

- Change: Swap seeds with peers in transfer tab

- Change: When retargeted files in torrents, make the paths relative after retarget if possible

- Change: Combine path and name columns in files tab

- Change: Make scheduler descriptions more descriptive and really clear left-behind text

- Change: skip udp:// urls in tracker rotation

- Change: grey out IPv6/Teredo option if installed or on platforms that do not support it

- Change: do not try (and fail) to open firewall on platforms that do not support it

- Change: parse https:// urls in Tracker column

- Change: auto WebUI installation on enable. Installation option on /gui/index.html when not installed

- Fix: More font size issues on Vista

- Fix: HTTP 400s from trackers / RSS feeds when running NOD32 IMON

- Fix: rare crash with DNS

- Fix: rare GetExternalIP failure

- Fix: more firewall entry removal, entry for previously installed version

- Fix: progress bar size and placement when it was the first enabled column

- Fix: DHT Update Tracker menu item

- Fix: crash with partitions of different sector alignments

- Fix: do not allow IPv6 installation on networks with DNS that do not support AAAA lookups

- Fix: Teredo installation timeout bug: "result was: []"

- Fix: false Teredo installation failure on non-english platforms

- Fix: shortcut and file association problems when not moving or copying exe during install

Download: http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent...ha-7785.upx.exe

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Changes in ?Torrent Version 1.8 alpha (build 7795), 2008-01-12:

- Change: disable RSS query information button when no feed is selected

- Fix: Crash in some cases with HTTP seeds

- Fix: Speed guide always using default port in the installation dialog

- Fix: Installation dialog showing up in some cases where it should not

- Fix: "None" string in Vista firewall entry

http://download.utorrent.com/beta/utorrent...ha-7795.upx.exe

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This way Firefox 3 will be released before the final version of ?Torrent 1.8 :rolleyes::

[center?Torrent 1.8 alpha 7834b>[/center]

--- 2008-01-15: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7834)

- Change: do not display remaining bytes if 0

- Fix: Pressing the associate buttons in the preferences window would get .torrent and .btsearch extensions mixed up in web browsers

- Fix: UPnP would unmap after 20 minutes instead of re-mapping

- Fix: Wrong path put in run in startup entry when installing

Download: ?Torrent 1.8 Alpha 7834

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--- 2008-01-17: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7895)

- Change: Added link to forums on system tray icon

- Change: Add context menu for bandwidth allocation column in torrents listview

- Change: Close firewall entry of installing exe

- Change: Continue installing settings if installing to same path of exe

- Change: Add another hidden column to the files tab, "Name", that contains the original name of the individual file

- Fix: Saving of retargetted files relative to the torrent's download directory

- Fix: remote crash bug (affects all 1.6.x, 1.7.x, and 1.8 builds released to date)

Download: ?Torrent 1.8 Alpha 7895

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?Torrent 1.8 alpha 7928>

--- 2008-01-18: Version 1.8 alpha (build 7928)

- Change: If the torrent's label was changed in torrent properties form the add torrent dialog, reflect it in the add torrent dialog

- Change: Advanced setting to disable WINE hacks if need be (program restart required)

- Change: A boatload of GUI hacks for WINE, including disabling listview flicker workarounds, a multitude of ugly hacks to make the addtorrent dialog usable on it, and disabling the messagebox subclassing (which means no checkbox or controls in them)

- Change: use "client" instead of "enterpriseclient" for Teredo setup

- Fix: "Wierdly colored selection border" in add torrent dialog

- Fix: WINE DNS problems (WINE bug in GetBestInterface)

- Fix: possible negative "downloaded=" numbers

- Fix: port not saving in Installation dialog

Download: ?Torrent 1.8 Alpha 7928

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?Torrent 1.8 alpha 8188>

--- 2008-01-26: Version 1.8 alpha (build 8188)

- Change: Removed the two pixel gap on both sides of the main toolbar

- Change: Add properties to torrent category menu

- Change: Give delete torrent confirmation dialog "always show this dialog"-style functionality

- Change: Give search button a style more conformant to the Vista UI guidelines if available

- Change: Make delete torrent button look pressed while its menu is up

- Change: make Search and Remove buttons consistant with IE7 search button behaviour

- Change: removed 10 pixel gap on the right side of the searchbox

- Change: Alternate listview background color to be roughly the same color as the selected column, rather then a constant gray

- Change: Increase maximum waiting time from five seconds to one minute for UAC subprocess when installing on Vista

- Change: Add confirm deletion of trackers option to UI Settings

- Change: Show graphical progress bar option is now in advanced settings

- Change: Delete key now deletes trackers in the trackers tab

- Change: Remove label setting from torrent properties dialog

- Change: Note that port 0 in the speed guide is a signal for uTorrent itself to choose the port

- Change: Make about dialog non-modal

- Change: Change text of a few updater-related checkboxes in preferences to be more specific about what they effect

- Change: Always show the selection in the tracker and file listviews, even if they don't have focus

- Change: Move items in add torrent dialog listview left a bit if there are no directories in the torrent

- Change: Max Up and Max Down have been renamed to Up Limit and Down Limit

- Fix: Some cases of controls, such as listviews, not properly updating on Windows theme change

- Fix: potential remote crash exploit

- Fix: Opening dialog on Windows 95

- Fix: Modal dialogs now correctly disable and return focus to the window they were launched from, not the main window

- Fix: Various tiny memory leaks

- Fix: Leaking of memory when closing non-modal dialogs (existed in both 1.6 and 1.7)

- Fix: corrupted URL/messsage in Add Torrent by URL dialog

- Fix: incorrect column highlighting after hiding/showing columns

- Fix: disable webui relative path parsing

Download: ?Torrent 1.8 alpha 8188

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- Fix: Opening dialog on Windows 95

im a bit surprised to see this, that they are making the program work better on a 12 year OS that no one uses. They should just make the program work for windows nt and up(like windows 2000, xp, vista, etc). If they do that, then they can spread more time securing and adding stuff instead of killing bugs that are caused by win 95/98

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?Torrent 1.8 alpha 8205>

--- 2008-01-28: Version 1.8 alpha (build 8205)

- Change: Return to old font size for listview progress bars

- Fix: Do not select a listview column if an option is not chosen from the column context menu

- Fix: update timeouts with trackers

- Fix: a few crash bugs

Download: ?Torrent 1.8 alpha 8205

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