I have finally dumped uTorrent!

[qubit]

uTorrent is a decent program and I've used it for years, but it was time for it to finally go because of those ads.

Ran it today and saw that the ads had been enabled again due to an automatic update. I then had to faff around yet again with the advanced options to get rid of them. However, it's not just the presence of the ads and having to remove them that got me. No it was the kind of ads, scammy get rich quick ones which constantly pulsate and animate in those really annoying attention-grabbing ways. If they had been honest ads and most importantly not animated, I would have been happy to keep using uTorrent and have them displayed.

I questioned why I wanted to support a company that is willing to be associated with the kind of shady people who would run ads like that, even if they invented the bittorrent protocol and quickly decided that I didn't.

I then did a bit of googling for other bittorrent clients, checked out some reviews and found BitComet. It's free, has lots of features and good reviews. Tried it, looks good so I'm gonna stay with this for now. In particular, it has a smart bandwidth management feature which helps to maximise the download rate.

Do you have suggestions for a better client?

www.bitcomet.com

 

[Athlon2K15]

Transmission

 

[patrico]

Hey, I use utorrent 1.8.3 and get no adds

 

[R00kie]

You can actually turn the ads off within the app, thats what I did.

 

[Jetster]

yea what ads 2.2.1 your getting it from the wrong place

 

[newtekie1]

I just never use the uTorrent UI, I use the WebUI for everything.

 

[qubit]

You can actually turn the ads off within the app, thats what I did.

Yes, I know, looks like you missed it in my OP.

yea what ads 2.2.1 your getting it from the wrong place

No, I've always got it direct from Bittorrent themselves and go direct to the source for all software I get, for this reason alone. They're just happy to associate with scammy ads.

 

[Jetster]

if you want a copy with no ads pm your e mail Ill send you one

 

[Kursah]

qBittorrent is an excellent replacement that is similar to old school uTorrent but regularly updated. No ads, no BS that I've ever noticed. Though I usually install it from ninite.com anymore. Works fast, has many of the useful features uTorrent for managing what happens post-download, throttle and connection limits, etc.

 

[qubit]

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Oddly, I see that it supports the Mac, but not Windows. It's big in Linux too, I see.

if you want a copy with no ads pm your e mail Ill send you one

Thanks, but I can get rid of them, as I explained. I've dumped them over the principle of them associating with dodgy ads in the first place.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

You're a bit late at ditching utorrent. qbittorrent is now what utorrent use to be.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

No, I've always got it direct from Bittorrent themselves and go direct to the source for all software I get, for this reason alone. They're just happy to associate with scammy ads.

There's your problem. The last good version of uTorrent was 2.0.2.19648 (322,352 bytes, MD5: 090FA5F64CFB050B8FFAEC7F57C31834). I uploaded it here:
uTorent 2.0.2.19648 on FileDropper SEE ATTACHMENT!

I redownloaded it and reverified it to make sure FileDropper didn't do anything to it. 100% match.


I only use it these days for downloading from Humble Bundle.


Edit: DUH! It's tiny! I'm attaching it to this post!

 

[Jetster]

Seams like everyone is doing this now. I'm so sick of it. People buy brand new Laptop that don't even work because its loaded with crap already

 

[R-T-B]

I wouldn't know, but I share your pain with the ads thing. I do open source probono work that often gets no income, so I used to use ad.fly links (links that show ads to the end user and pay you) to recoup some of my time cost. The ads that started to appear there became so intrusive and flashy and outright hard to distinguish from the legit download that I was forced to dump it altogether. Now I work entirely for free.

Oh well, it's resume building, right?

 

[Solaris17]

Transmission

This Love me some transmission. Its what I went to after utorrent (my client of choice) became riddled with trash.

 

[qubit]

There's your problem. The last good version of uTorrent was 2.0.2.19648 (322,352 bytes, MD5: 090FA5F64CFB050B8FFAEC7F57C31834).
http://www.filesoul.com/software/uTorrent/2-0-2-Build-19648/

I only use it these days for downloading from Humble Bundle.

Yeah, I take it that's the last one before they stuck the ads in? I remember it being big news when they started and how pissed off people were about it at the time and rightly so. AFAIK they weren't even removable initially.

Thing is, I'd rather not have to stick to some aging version of the software I want to use if possible, hence I would rather go to the competition and use something else that is current, which I've done here.

To be fair though, the BitComet installer does try to change your homepage and install their video player by default, unless one unticks them, so it's a little bit guilty there.

 

[R00kie]

Yes, I know, looks like you missed it in my OP.

Yeah, sorry, my bad.

 

[Solaris17]

Oddly, I see that it supports the Mac, but not Windows. It's big in Linux too, I see.

there is a windows fork called transmission QT which is a windows binary version of the linux counterpart

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yeah, I take it that's the last one before they stuck the ads in? I remember it being big news when they started and how pissed off people were about it at the time and rightly so. AFAIK they weren't even removable initially.

Thing is, I'd rather not have to stick to some aging version of the software I want to use if possible, hence I would rather go to the competition and use something else that is current, which I've done here.

To be fair though, the BitComet installer does try to change your homepage and install their video player by default, unless one unticks them.

No, it's the last version private trackers would permit. It was released long before ads were added--back when it still classified as "micro."

Torrents really haven't changed except for the addition of magnet links. 2.0.2 supports magnet links. So yeah..it does everything that needs doing as far as torrents are concerned. XD

uTorrent 2.0.2 has no installer.

 

[qubit]

Yeah, sorry, my bad.

Ah, if only you were perfect like me.

there is a windows fork called transmission QT which is a windows binary version of the linux counterpart

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/

Ta.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

qBittortent and deluge.

Both seem to be clones of utorrent, before the program absolutely went to crap. Both seem to be updated fairly frequently. Neither seems to have disappeared up its own backside, because the community is making them freely instead of a company trying to milk money out of us on one side, while calling us pirates on the other.



So you're aware (because some people aren't), the people who run uTorrent are crap. While they started off well, the last few years have been bad for them. First it was the adds, then the adds that couldn't be turned off, then they reverted back to adds that could be turned off (though almost every update seems to re-enable them), then they packaged a mining program inside their program, and now we're back to the question of "Why deal with this crap?"

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I updated my post with working download URL for uTorrent 2.0.2 and MD5 to make sure it has not been tampered with.

Edit: I attached it to the post...because it is micro. XD

 

[kn00tcn]

bitcomet should be destroyed & banned, i dont even care if they fixed their ways, years ago they altered the torrent specifications, got themselves banned on private trackers, & generate some junk files similar to OSX .DS_Store crap

deluge has some UI annoyances, especially the webui, makes me miss rtorrent webui (but that's another story about linux... deluge windows is 'ok' not great)

deluge's only strong point is if you have good upload (particularly for a linux seedbox in central west europe), it's apparently more aggressive with seeding & generating connections

even if they invented the bittorrent protocol

is bram even working there?

 

[xorbe]

I switched to qBitTorrent, because the hassle of the uTorrent "registry" got to be too much of a headache.

 

[Batou1986]

Tixati that is all.
Deluge thrashed my disks too much and I have no idea why but gave up on it