Petrovic Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 The team behind the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has released an overview of its accomplishments this year. Aside from fixing critical vulnerabilities and all sorts of technical issues, there have been several changes on the monetization front. Most notably, uTorrent has decided to ban 'Russian brides' and other NSFW banners. With more than 150 million active users a month uTorrent remains the leading torrent client. While the software hasn’t seen any major overhauls this year, the team behind the software has not been idle. This week uTorrent’s director of product management, Jordy Berson, gave an overview of their accomplishments. Living up to its ‘micro’ name Berson says that uTorrent has shrunk in size, again. At the same time, however, the team was quick to respond to a critical DDoS vulnerability reported by researchers a few months ago. “µTorrent got smaller and more efficient. µTorrent developers were on the front lines of addressing security vulnerabilities identified for the wider libutp-based community,” Berson writes. The uTorrent team also reports a dramatic decrease in crash rates as well as other fixes and smaller updates. “We improved stability and performance with a series of changes that further reduced crash rates. We fixed bugs when they appeared and tweaked the small features you asked us to address.” Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 uTorrent has decided to ban 'Russian brides' and other NSFW banners. i think its a good thing to do but yet its just Russian ? ads when 99.9% of russian people remove ads on there own lets hope utorrent team keep up the good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 The key is NSFW. Having had experience with Microsoft System Center these type of ads would show up when internet caches are examined and though they may not get anyone fired it would definitely cause them severe professional pain. Especially when a lot of these types of ads end up in a cache where it would appear that an employee was surfing porn sites all day. And if anyone ever tells you that just because they are running SCCM on your system that they can't see EVERYTHING you are doing, don't you ever believe them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 28, 2015 Administrator Share Posted December 28, 2015 Not sure why they had them in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 4 hours ago, DKT27 said: Not sure why they had them in the first place. cuz you can make money off piracy linux distros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 11 hours ago, DKT27 said: Not sure why they had them in the first place. Because they made a download software, didn't think through monetization (think South Park ??? Profit), so they just went the ad route like everyone else. The route that gets you hacked, now baked into an app outside of the desktop sandbox. The ad model is a security nightmare. Running arbitrary code downloaded from sources not from the app maker, that the app maker doesn't proactively vet (really when they "ban", they don't do much to prevent bait and switch ads). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 i just test installing utorrent and i not see one ad seem utorrent and working hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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