Hey all! I’m in a little bit of a pickle here. I want to start building my list of movies and shows again, but I don’t have the budget to pay for a VPN every month. Currently I’m using TOR browser to find and download all of my stuff, but I’m still a little skeched out about my ISP tracking me and such. I was wondering what the best methodology is towards safe torrenting without the use of a VPN.
With PIA, it’s like 3.25/month for a 2-year subscription. You could afford the computer, surely this amount is manageable?
Don’t use TOR for torrenting, this is just wrong. For others who are deprived of bandwidth, but also for you. You are probably on more lists now than torrenting copyrighted stuff in the open ever would achieve.
I think the copyright trolls monitoring torrent swarms is more of a risk than your ISP who might throttle P2P traffic but won’t send out letters unless prompted to do so by a copyright troll.
If you can’t afford a VPN, consider trying to find a working proxy on one of the proxy list sites but even if you find a working proxy it will probably be very slow. At least it won’t be your home IP exposed in the torrent swarm though.
You can always search for open directories…
Generally less risk than torrenting, especially if you download from countries that don’t give a fsck about copyright…
Siagavpn.com Been with them since they started over a year ago and it rocks.
PIA offers three logins at a time, so you could split the bill… cutting that devastating $3/month to $1
You can always get a 1 or 2 year subscription to a VPN provider like PIA for around 50 dollhairs
https://protonvpn.com best vpn without logs
I’ve been trying to find some SOCKS5 proxies on https://hidemyna.me/en/proxy-list/ which will work in qBittorrent.
Proxies in Ukraine are generally working for me at the moment but haven’t had any success elsewhere so far. Just add the proxy without authentication.
It’s downloading Ubuntu at up to 5.1MiB/s in a test.
Wouldn’t an ISP still be able to view your browsing history/downloads since it’s just a proxy?
Also, why are you downloading Ubuntu through a proxy? It’s free.
It’s downloading Ubuntu at up to 5.1GiB/s in a test.
GiB? Typo?
Yes your ISP can see the content but your home IP would not be exposed to copyright trolls monitoring torrent swarms.
I use Ubuntu as a test, no harm done if proxy fails.
I run a proxy inside a VPN as my default set up, but that costs money and for anyone on a tight budget I still think using a free proxy is better than using TOR against its terms of service.
Oh yes it was, thanks for pointing that out, I have edited the error now.