Tracker Blacklist and/or Whitelist

[kawazu]

The option to blacklist trackers for security and/or privacy would be a valuable addition to utorrent. Right now without manually editing the tracker list for each torrent or using the trackers tab menu there is no way to reliably remove unwanted or malicious trackers from a torrent. Using a blacklist would also be helpful to automatically remove trackers that use a protocol which isn't always supported by users behind a separately managed router. As of now trackers that are unable to connect due to protocol restrictions simply sit in the tracker list constantly updating, sometimes causing connection problems. Having an option to enable automatic filtering via a list of restricted or allowed trackers prior to announcement would be beneficial.

This might be slightly similar in scope to that of the "Trackerless Mode" request found here: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=65256 , but I believe an option to either blacklist or whitelist trackers without the need to disable them all would be helpful. I realize that there is risk to the health of some torrents by restricting which trackers are available, but with DHT and PEX the security benefits to preventing unwanted tracker access automatically would be much less detrimental to overall torrent health. Similar to using ipfilter.dat, a blacklist with wildcard support could automatically remove restricted trackers supplied by the user from future torrents, saving the need for manual editing of tracker lists for each separate torrent file.

[Firon]

Not going to happen.

[kawazu]

I guess I can still dream... Or, at the very least, hope that people stop putting worthless/bad trackers in the torrent list just because they can?

[Switeck]

Once someone has >20 torrents in uTorrent (started, stopped, or queued), it is unreasonable to assume they can quickly and easily remove all the unwanted trackers from each one.

Being able to use a Tracker Blacklist and/or Whitelist would get around the need to edit EACH torrent.

This wouldn't add new trackers to a torrent, it would only block unwanted ones already on a torrent.

I support this.

[kawazu]

It's definitely frustrating editing large batches of torrents individually, and as you said it's about removing trackers not appending new ones. Thanks for the support Switeck.

[Subbrilliant]

+1

I found this thread via Google while trying to find a method to do this exact operation.

If this is possible it would be a real time saver for me.

An extension of this concept would be a context menu type entry, (right click on an already loaded torrent), to blacklist all trackers present in the selected individual torrent en masse.

[DreadWingKnight]

Not going to happen.