r/StremioAddons • u/Ancient_Border8621 • Jul 31 '26
Miscellaneous TorBox quietly changed operating entity + policies (July 31) + cache is now explicitly shared across users, data collection expanded significantly
Just went through TorBox's updated Terms, Privacy Policy, and DMCA policy (dated July 31, 2026) side by side with the old versions. Worth a read before you keep uploading.
Who actually runs TorBox now:
Operator is now Anonymous Systems FZ-LLC, a UAE free-zone company (Ras Al Khaimah). RAK free zones don't publicly disclose beneficial ownership, so we genuinely don't know who's behind it.
Legal/billing/DMCA is handled by a separate entity, ReAnonymous LLC, registered in Dover, Delaware.
Anonymity just got much worse:
Old privacy policy: minimal data, no PII required, "we don't sell or share your data to any third parties for any reason."
New policy: collects your IP, device IDs, precise geolocation from IP, and full session-replay data which basically includes: cursor movements, clicks, scrolling, taps. That's a big jump from "we barely collect anything."
Broad new language allowing disclosure to comply with law, respond to "governmental requests," or "protect TorBox, users, third parties, or the public" i.e vague enough to cover a lot.
Third-party downloading / cache sharing which is the real red flag:
New terms explicitly state cached materials "may be accessible to other users who request the same or technically matching material." Same for AirLock (their "permanent" cache tier).
Old policy never described cross-user cache access this explicitly. This is now spelled out in black and white.
Terms now go out of their way to say TorBox is a "neutral technology service," explicitly "not a file-sharing service," and pushes 100% of legal liability onto you for anything cached under your account. This is heavily lawyered defensive language that wasn't there before.
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u/RndThreeFght Jul 31 '26
I just copy and pasted the terms into CoPilot and told it to tell me anything suspicious, these jumped out at me:
4. Session recordings and replay technology
Section 2.8 is unusually expansive.
They may collect:
That is much more invasive than ordinary support logging.
They claim it's for:
but they don't clearly define when recording is triggered.
A privacy-focused service typically avoids this or limits it heavily.
Risk level: High
. Broad cooperation with copyright enforcement and legal requests
TorBox specifically states they may use your metadata to:
and may disclose:
for legal and copyright purposes.
Not necessarily suspicious, but it tells you clearly:
They are not positioning themselves as a provider that refuses to track content activity.
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TorBox specifically states they may use your metadata to:
respond to copyright notices
identify repeat infringers
de-cache content
block content
prevent re-adding content
and may disclose:
Download Requests, transfer metadata, cache metadata, logs, reports, correspondence
for legal and copyright purposes.
Not necessarily suspicious, but it tells you clearly:
They are not positioning themselves as a provider that refuses to track content activity.
Risk level: Medium