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What are some privacy mistakes you've made?
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Using a VPN for torrents and forgetting to set it up to kill the network connection when VPN is lost. Got a couple "love letters" from my ISP that way.
After getting those nastygrams myself then having to troubleshoot some other issues, I've ended up using solely a private tracker (iptorrents because I couldn't get an invite elsewhere) for torrents which I only use for manual search in radar/sonarr to minimize seeding space. Automatic downloads go through Usenet if I add something to my watchlist. I did have torrenting bound to PIA as a VPN in the past, but with Usenet and a private tracker I never felt the need to renew it.