BitTorrent Shoot promises secure photo sharing on Android, iOS and Windows
Sharing photos is quite easy with modern phones as most ship with options to upload photos to the cloud automatically either by using a service by the phone's maker, the maker of the underlying operating system, or a third-party application that offers that functionality.
Most have in common that photos are transferred to third-party servers that you don't have full control over. While that may not be an issue for some photos you take, you may not want other photos to appear on the web, even in your own account.
That's where Shoot, a new application by BitTorrent Inc comes into play. The application uses the same peer-to-peer technology that is used by other company products such as BitTorrent Sync.
What this means is that your photos don't get stored on third-party Internet servers, not even temporarily, but sent directly from your device to the device of the recipient. Another advantage of Shoot is that size does not matter as files are transferred directly from your device to those of recipients.
The application itself is dead easy to use. Shoot some photos using your phone's camera and native apps or third-party apps. Once done, select photos or videos that are already on the device that you want tos share with others.
Simply select some photos or videos on your device and tap on the next button afterwards. The app generates a QR code that other recipients need to scan using their device and the installed version of Shoot on it to initiate the transfer.
Note: The app is free to try but is limited to three sends. If you require more, you need to unlock unlimited sending by purchasing it for $1.99. While you need to unlock unlimited sends, receiving files is free and requires no unlocking.
The application is super-simple to use as you only need to tap a couple of taps to send photos or videos, and tap even less when you are on the receiving end.
Shoot works best in local environments as you need to keep open the Shoot "send" interface to transfer files to other devices. While it may also work remotely with workarounds (taking screenshots of the QR code and sharing it online), it is designed for local environments and works best in those.
Is it worth the price? That depends entirely on how you plan to use it. If you transfer photos or videos regularly you may like what it has to offer, especially if you don't want those files to hit any third-party server on the Internet.
Shoot is not the first application to offer direct transfers of files between devices. Apps like SuperBeam for Android offer the functionality as well and are free, at least in basic versions.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.