Here’s what I learnt, almost every vpn which has a free version doesn’t allow torrenting. Not even protonvpn, however if apparently atlasvpn allows it, but atlasvpn didn’t work for me, so I am gonna go take a nap.
I was wondering how you torrent using qbittorrent
and manage to stay anonymous. I realize I can use a VPN, but VPN networks can fail. Apparently, there is a kill switch which can be applied so that qbittorent
would kill all processes when the VPN is disconnected, I was wondering how one could do this. I live in a country where torrenting might be cracked down, so I just want to be secure and not take any chances.
Also, I realize I should not torrent over the tor network but what about VPN are they built to handle such a load?
PS: I won’t download more than 300mbs per day.
You can bind qbittorrent to the vpn network interface. If it’s not there, no traffic. That’s my approach.
This should be bulletproof, right? When Gluetun can’t connect it will kill traffic
You can bind qbittorrent to the vpn network interface.
how do you do this? I use Linux btw
On linux, connections can have some weird names so you need to figure out the name of your VPN connection.
In qBittorrent go to Settings > Advanced > Network Interface and see what connections are available. Then connect to VPN and see what new connection appeared on the interfaces list - it will be the VPN you just connected to, possibly “tun0”. Select it and you’re good.
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I use Linux btw
My mind autocompleting before finishing reading: “I use Linux Arch by the way tips fedora”
Look in the network settings, you should see the option there. I’m not on my notebook right now, so I can’t tell exactly, sorry…
You should not torrent over the tor network, but you can torrent over the I2P network. qBittorrent even has experimental I2P support built in.
is there a non beta/dev version out with it yet?