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[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 106 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I've had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

The idea of you needing a "special" program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I've noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn't a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I've had that conversation).

[-] spacedout@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why can't browsers treat torrents as just another protocol for downloads, so that if you haven't got a default set for torrent out magnet mimetypes, it just downloads it in the included download manager?

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure they probably could but they don't really have the incentive to add support for them.

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