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Site is down, but I noticed recently that the bit torrent client is looking more and more like 90s malware every time I download it. It has been streaming commercials for a while now. Ive decided to look for an alternative client next time I need to install one

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I suspect you're referring to μTorrent, which has been descending into awful spam-infested garbage for a long time now. As another user suggested, give qbittorrent a go.

qbittorrent is the best out there for windows imo. my only complaint is that it seems to have no dpi awareness whatsoever.

Check out PicoTorrent. It's very very lightweight and simple. And DPI aware.

https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

that actually looks fantastic. thanks for the recommendation!

Transmission is pretty good. Lightweight and looks same on Linux/Windows

If you're using uTorrent to stream movies, I suggest using [Soda Player](https://www.sodaplayer.com/). It has no ads and lets you stream the movie instead of waiting for it to finish downloading

qbittorrent is pretty good

rtorrent https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

Plain text, runs in a terminal (which means screen or tmux allows for remote, headless, operation).

No ads, just torrenting.

I've used transmission before, its a bit basic vs bittorrent/utorrent.

That's because it does everything you need. It hasn't had much in the way of updates for years.

There are quite a few open source clients, which you may inspect before compiling and using

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