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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)

submitted 11 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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[-] Jiggs@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Mullvad costs $5 and Im not aware of any catches Would be glad if others pointed out if there are any Actual VPN, socks5 proxy available

[-] TrustedTyrant@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

SOCKS5 proxies don't.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Correct. I'm a leech. I use a private tracker and whenever I need ratio, I pay for a month of seedbox on feralhosting and grab popular torrents for a month. I have a ton of surplus ratio.