I have switched to qBittorent recently after uTorrent became bloated and full of ads. I like the fact that qBittorent is Open Source and has no ads whatsoever What is your fav. Torrent client?
I use qBittorrent (Portable version). I had some problems with a specific version of uTorrent and this made me move to qBittorrent; I never looked back. qBittorrent Portable: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/qbittorrent_portable
Bittorrent and uTorrent look almost exactly the same with a few color changes. qBittorrent is a totally diff. program
wow, never heard of that before! looks kinda neat from the screenshots I might give it a shot EDIT: This is a Linux only client or what? I only found this to download: ktorrent-4.3.0.tar.bz2
well yes they are all in the sens of doing the job of getting your torrents BUT.... uTorrent has become a paid service that are trying to just make money by selling their program with snake oil tools, bundling toolbars, etc, it's just horrible qBittorent is clean because it is Open Source
uTorrent has never been open source. BitTorrent v5 and earlier was open source. Starting with v6, BitTorrent is basically uTorrent with a different logo - BitTorrent became closed source, while uTorrent has always been closed source. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ΜTorrent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)
Well, they are trying to address these concerns: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=123284&p=1 Personally, I'll stick with qBittorent. My problems with uTorrent were of a different nature and qBittorent never gave me problems of any nature whatsoever.
No, not ever since its creation in 2005. It's amusing how the project started out because of the desire to be rid of bloatware, and 7 years later has become what it was meant to get rid of.
like what d00d? I never had any problems with uTorrent other than the fact that they spoiled the best torrent clients with all these ads and stuff. I mean they have a freakin' uTorrent Plus for a paid monthly or annual fee that is supposed to scan the torrents for viruses riiiiiight.... some people who are ignorant about computers actually fall for this
Like that "offers" are now "opt-out"? Anyways, I stopped using uTorrent before these so called "offers". As for uTorrent Plus, is has other features as well. See: http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/index/ Also, their integrated AV is powered by BitDefender (which is a favorite of the testing labs): http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/features/#antivirus I wouldn't buy uTorrent Plus, but I wouldn't classify it as scareware either.
I see, nothing interesting for me though 1- AV by Bitdefender, I already have KAV and certainly don't want any conflict with another scanner 2- being able to convert files to popular devices like iphone, etc, I use DVDSoft Free Video Converter it does that exactly and converts to any format / preset size 3- Plays more formats than other players, who needs that, MPC-HC FTW plays anything you throw at it while these features are nice, certainly not needed as you said
What's your opinion on the "Remote File Access" feature? Comments? http://www.utorrent.com/utorrent-plus/features/#remote_access "Want to remotely grab your torrent library before you board that long flight?" What's your alternative for this? rofl (I rarely download torrents so, for this feature, I can't even think about an usage scenario)
With a few clicks under "Options", this is what you get. And the whole folder of uTorrent is 3.50 MB. Where exactly are the ads and the bloat everyone whines about? Anyway, i use 2.2.1 build 25302 which is the last portable