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You client is politely sending items your peers are requesting, to try to find peers for them in your peer network, without having to flood everyone with irrelevant peer lists.

And this site (which i guess is just a couple lines of python collecting the data) is not bothering to distinguish any of the finer details.




Ah, this makes sense because the first seen and last seen columns are the same for all the stuff I didn't download, but for the one thing I noticed that I do actually recognize there's a gap between first and last seen.

Of course I imagine if two peers were looking for the same thing a few hours a part this wouldn't work to identify stuff either.

EDIT: Is there any way to stop it from doing this? I don't want law enforcement to mistakenly use this as evidence that I actually downloaded anything.




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