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Are VPNs still useful for privacy when torrenting? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Dislodge3233@feddit.de to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn't.

Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?

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[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

So not sure if this is bad (in the selfish way, like not seeding torrents) but to avoid needing a VPN, I use real-debrid which will download it for me and then I can directly download the file without a torrent client.

As a bonus it let's you stream high quality TVs/movies on Kodi.