How did Vuze/Azureus not make the cut? Vuze is a highly customizable and very mature product. (Its current UI can be busy/annoying, but if you stick with Classic Mode UI thereās no problem.) Why the snub? Torrentfreak holds no such grudges.
uTorrent lost any remaining goodwill I had for it around the point that it played a banner ad with sound. At about 2 AM. When my place was quiet. I just about fell out of my chair.
It was just kinda the straw the broke the camelās back after months of rolling my eyes after dozens of āTHESE ASIAN GIRLS DESPERATELY WANT A BOYFRIENDā ads.
For me, it was when the ads started controlling the shape & location of uTorrentās window.
I was willing to live with the ads when they stuck to the same shape & size, but I leave my screen organized the way do because I like it that way, goddammit, and finding that something has resized itself and moved while I wasnāt looking (or while I was, once, which was almost more infuriating) is just flat-out fucking unacceptable.
The sound thing must have come later: sounds pretty horrible.
uTorrent later ran a Litecoin miner in the backgroundā¦
I used Azureus in my old MacOS (10.2-10.4) days. It started working well, but every update seemed to use more system resources, and it started being far too sluggish for me to use. When I decided to try it again a year or so later, it was renamed āVuzeā and turned into some enormous bloatware thing. Apparently, the developers wanted to make it its own marketplace and media center, in addition to bittorrent client - and it still ran unusably slow for me.
I would love to go back to rTorrent now that Ī¼Torrent allows MacKeeper to advertise, but for some reason I could never get it to seed/UL properly (It would seed, and occasionally upload, but overall it didnāt seem to be very findable by peers,) which is a problem if youāre using private trackers that use ratio as currency.
āThe Bestā should read āThe most commonly usedā.
uTorrent is bloated garbage and has been for at least four years.
It is interesting to see how many people have decided to write ātheā open source version of uTorrent over the years, and yet itās still not dead.
Personally I like Deluge, but Iām entirely ok with the setup it required, being able to run the daemon on one machine, and the gui on another is kinda cool.
you can disable the ads with a few changes to the settings (theyāre hidden away so the average user would never find them):
Also make sure you disable the automatic update feature in uTorrent, if you have a stable version youāre happy with stick to it. I only upgraded last year after running a 2 year old version because it couldnāt handle the bandwidth from my new FTTC connection (all downloads would seize up after about a minute of downloading at over 5 MBps). Will stick to my current version until thereās some new bug I need to deal with.
Guessing that you moved to qBittorrent. What a relief after uTorrent.
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