That’s the question really. I hear the terms metadata and torrents thrown around all the time when talking about internet and privacy, but I don’t really understand them and when I tried googling torrents I was just confused. Can someone explain one or both like I’m 5?

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    1 year ago

    Metadata is easily said as data about data.

    You download ‘file.torrent’

    Metadata contains what’s inside file.torrent, it’s size, location (IP address), folders etc…

    Any .torrent file is basically a text file that holds information (metadata) and it what you want to download, and who is uploading it/where they are/what files/file size…etc