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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)
  1. 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.
  2. Tor is a TCP only network.
  3. While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 39 points 11 months ago

I pay monthly for access to a SOCKS5 proxy service from a company called BTGuard, and tell my BT client to connect through that. It is not expensive and works great I've been using it for about 12 or 13 years, and found it after getting an email from my ISP saying they identified me downloading TV shows. In that time, I have only had issues a handful of times. More reliable than most other services I pay for and I've never seen another DMCA notice since.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

BTGuard

Expensive VPN with less features. Probably made sense 12 or 13 years ago.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I do not use their VPN, just the socks5 proxy, so I can't comment. It's $6.95 USD monthly. Costs less than a meal out. Do you have an alternative that is less expensive with no catches or limits? I'm all ears. Serious. I'm always willing to try other stuff. Any socks5 proxy service that costs less.

I just don't get calling it expensive. It's not really.

[-] 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
[-] 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.

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