It looks like I have nothing more to add to the conversation than the fact that almost every vpn which has a free plan doesn’t allow torrenting. That’s it folks. Ignore the post. Gonna not delete it because, well for the archieve ig

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 AND abandon this thread.


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.

  • Ryan
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    1510 months ago

    You can bind qbittorrent to the vpn network interface. If it’s not there, no traffic. That’s my approach.

      • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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        910 months ago

        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.

      • @Setarkus@toast.ooo
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        410 months ago

        I use Linux btw

        My mind autocompleting before finishing reading: “I use Linux Arch by the way tips fedora

      • Ryan
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        210 months ago

        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…

  • @0v0@sopuli.xyz
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    1310 months ago

    You should not torrent over the tor network, but you can torrent over the I2P network. qBittorrent even has experimental I2P support built in.

    • @ninchuka
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      110 months ago

      is there a non beta/dev version out with it yet?