Mechanics I’ve seen to avoid this:

• Occasional sitewide freeleech
• bonus points for seeding duration irregardless of upload, can be traded for reducing download
• freeleech torrents (only counts upload not download)
• partial freeleech (25/50/75% download counted)
• Timed freeleech (free first 24h)
• Download % counted reduced based on seed size (seed >1tb and everything’s freeleech)
• Reduction of download % counted based on rank
• Forum competitions for bonus points/freeleech tokens
• Freeleech tokens giveouts

Hell, there’s quite a few PT’s that don’t care about ratio and just have minimum seeding times on torrents.

Plenty of these trackers have been running 1-2 decades on 1 or more of these methods just fine.

Almost every site is laughably easy to keep ratio if you read the rules/FAQ, look at some what’s to build points/ratio, read the forums, and don’t go nuts In the first week while your establishing your account

I thought that too. Yes, big bad US corp, but privately owned and tiny staff footprint.

I’m not ditching my 20yo steam account on behalf of this graphic

So reading more into it, it’s (currently) only on the bogus copilot+ PCs they were peddling? I’m happily on bazzite, but this is good news for my stubborn mates that haven’t touched copilot+ shit.