feature request: tracker blacklist

Bug #573302 reported by T.E.O.
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libtorrent-rasterbar
Unknown
Unknown
qBittorrent
Confirmed
Wishlist
Christophe Dumez

Bug Description

In some countries (for example, Italy) some trackers' addresses (for example, the pirate bay) are blocked by IP at the ISP level, but usually every torrent uses more than one tracker so it's not impossible to download it. however, qb wastes lots of time trying to access the blocked tracker, and sometimes the download doesn't even start, unless you manually remove such trackers from the list, for every torrent.
it would be nice if qb could have a blacklist for those trackers so that it doesn't even try to contact them.

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

This would indeed be interesting. However, libtorrent-rasterbar allows to remove only user-defined trackers right now. As a consequence, I cannot alter trackers defined in the torrent file itself. I will contact libtorrent author about this.

Changed in qbittorrent:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)
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T.E.O. (email-diversa) wrote :

wouldn't it be possible to - on some events, like opening of a .torrent file or application startup - check for every torrent if there is one or more of the blacklisted tracker and send a "remove user defined tracker" command to libtorrent-rasterbar? maybe just as a temporary solution or a workaround

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