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Tribler

Privacy using our Tor-inspired onion routing

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Tribler is an open-source, non-profit peer-to-peer torrent client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It combines torrent search and downloading with a custom Tor-like network, using onion routing, strong encryption, and hidden seeding to reduce exposure to censorship and legal pressure. The project also aims to make search and file sharing possible without relying on external websites.

Core capabilities include anonymous downloads, onion-routed search and download traffic, and built-in torrent discovery. The client is available as a stable release, a pre-release build, and an experimental build that adds bleeding-edge features at the cost of stability. Source code is published on GitHub, and the project maintains documentation, a wiki, a forum, and a bug-reporting channel. The site notes that anonymity protections are still evolving and should not be treated as protection against state-level surveillance.

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