You are supporting them by using them, hell your thread here didn't even acknowledge their having scammed unsuspecting users, anyone reading your thread w/o any prior knowledge would easily fall victim to them by simply going and downloading whatever utorrent's currently got. Of course, because it's the strongest response there is! When a company begins shady practices like that there's both a pragmatic/practical reason as well as moral/ethical (not doing business with liars/deceptive people), I'm really unsure what you mean by 'I feel as if staying with 2.2.1 you have abandoned them long before their evil ways', I imagine that means you're using a version that wasn't packaged with the litecoin miner? Regardless you haven't 'abandoned' them when you're still using their product and IMO on any modern computer the differences in functionality between utorrent qbitorrent transmission deluge are practically nil, I've set them all up and never had issue with using them or found one to be significantly better/worse than the rest so with that being the case insofar as offerings I just don't get why you'd still give utorrent your support (which you are assuredly doing by continuing to use them)

I assume many long time torrent users have used 2.2.1, many probably still do but for those who now use a more 'modern' client, what made you make the move? My PC has the memory that's not a total deal breaker if it works better but I go and add my first torrent and it turns out my private tracker didn't yet allow qb's latest version 3.3.14. I actually liked the look of qb and all the settings or a version of it seemed to be there. Here's my uTorrent 2.2.1 chugging along, loaded and only using 12MB. I assume this is the greatest and lightest of the more modern clients? I didn't even add any torrents at that point.

I always look at my task manager to see usage and qb was using ~+40MB of memory. Still, every time I go for a test drive, I always go back to old faithful 2.2.1. I've tried deluge and transmission beta for windows, actually use transmission in macOS though. Just yesterday I decided to try qbittorrent (again). Every 6 months to a year or so, I go 'shopping.' I give another client a test drive and try to leave uTorrent behind.

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