What's your take on private trackers?

Are they for you? Why or why not?

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It's all I use. I feel like there's less risk and they're way more organized.
- The organization and typical submission requirements are what really put them over public trackers for me.
  Public tracker: It's this big and this many files. Figure it out.
  Private tracker: All the metadata
  Experience may vary. Post is overly dramatic for comedic effect
- If you are forced to disable your vpn there is more risk. I'm not sure if some permit a vpn but I wouldn't be trusting any of them without one.
  
  I use a VPN and it's on a kill switch, so if it gets disconnected for whatever reason, the machine can't reach the internet at all.
  I can't imagine why a private tracker would disallow you from using a VPN
  
  MAM used to be quite anti-VPN but I haven't used it in years, so no idea what their take is now. They tracked quotas and stuff through your IP and required you to be online on IRC. Great content and community, but a lot of hoops to jump through.
  
  There used to be issues with tracking ratios when using a VPN. And since many private trackers require users to maintain a specific ratio, it meant that many private trackers effectively banned VPNs. Because if you were using a VPN, you’d be stuck at a 0.00 ratio and quickly get banned.
  
  I use a VPN and maintain a ratio. They must use something other than IP address as a unique identifier.
  
  Usually they want only your IP while signing up to be able to see if they had already banned you and you try to evade it.
  Most times there was the rule that once signed up, you can turn it back on for both torrenting and browsing.
  
  Even with VPN, ultimately you're still storing everything at your house. Seedbox, preferably in the Netherlands is the way to go.
  
  I've been in about half a dozen so far and none have cared about VPN usage.
- Same. Plus the quality encodes are a lot easier to find and more abundant (assuming you care about such things of course)

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