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Grab yourself a VPN and always use that while you’re sailing the high seas. For movies I just use the search function in qBittorrent.
a vpn is probably not great, a cheap VPS in linode (because it has one click wireguard vpses) is probably better and wont get caught on captchas / anti spam filters
Captchas aside, with a VPN your traffic is mixed with others, making it much harder to trace back to you (assuming the VPN provider has a no-log policy and can be trusted). With Linode, isn't that not the case since you're setting up a VPS for just yourself, and therefore a greater risk?
yeah but for piracy it is adequate. for illegal shit you should 1. not be using your own net, 2. using anything but TOR or the other one
Would you mind telling me more about this? I use a VPN and it’s annoying having to turn it off for Etsy or whatever. Would this stop that?
i think level1techs on yt covered it. it is basically a rented computer you can have for yourself. more importantly the traffic that goes through it is only your own so no captchas
A VPN aggregates many users' traffic under one ip, like what your home router does for all your devices. This is irritating, because other users doing shady stuff gets the ip flagged and then you get captchas and can't log into etsy and you bank and all that. A vps gets its own ip, so if you tunnel your traffic through it, you're not sharing the ip. So the ip doesn't get blacklisted and those hassles disappear. But it's also not as anonymous, because your traffic isn't bundled with any other traffic. VPS providers generally require some information, or at least payment, which can tie your identity to the ip. Then there are logs. You can log to null, if you set it up right, but the vps provider probably also keeps logs, so that's a negative compared with a VPN.
Got a recommended VPN?
ProtonVPN or MullvadVPN is fine
I like Mullvad. They were recently subject to a search warrant and customer data was not compromised due to their no-logging policy.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/
You could also take a look at TorrentFreak's list. They don't recommend services, but instead ask them a series of questions to understand how seriously they take privacy and what policies and safeguards they have in place.
https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging
Mullvad has been great for me. I did a lot of research when I picked them but stuff could have changed since then. Don’t use any that advertise (nord, etc)
They changed in that mullvad no longer offers port forwards. Big bummer.
I see! Thanks for the answer (@^0^@)/