Best torrent downloaders pc

Though uTorrent was once at the top of our—and many others’—lists, it’s become a harder program to recommend over time due to its now-overabundance of advertisements. The program was originally developed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use torrent client, with its tagline reading “a (very) tiny BitTorrent client.” While the client is certainly still lightweight, other open-source applications like Deluge have, over the years, eroded at uTorrent’s mindshare of the market. In 2010, uTorrent began including a Conduit Engine toolbar within its download utility, along with making the homepage and default search engine Conduit without consent. In 2011, uTorrent began including the Bing toolbar instead, before announcing a paid version of the application titled uTorrent Plus. Even worse, in 2012 (starting with uTorrent version 3.2.2), users began to see advertisements, along with “featured torrents” within the app, and while these could be disabled, for some users, this was the final straw.

For many others, uTorrent became unusable in March of 2015 when the program began bundling another application titled “Epic Scale,” which mines cryptocurrencies called “Litecoin” in the background of your computer and gives that money to BitTorrent. Though this program has since been discontinued from being bundled with the software, uTorrent still represents a difficult recommendation in the face of qBittorrent, Deluge, and even other paid apps like BitTorrent or Vuze.