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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a lot of backlash a week or two ago when Mullvad announced that they would stop supporting port forwarding, as it seems like many people who were using Mullvad for torrenting were doing so because of the support for port forwarding. I'm still using Mullvad even though I don't port forward, but most of my torrenting is done through a separate seedbox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get the port forwarding issue. If I'm torrenting something on port 78660 but my only outgoing ports visible to others is port 8081, then couldn't I just tell my torrent software to use port 8081?

I don't really understand how torrenting is impacted by this, unless all torrent clients use a baked in port number (which from what I've seen over the last few decades, all torrent clients allow you to change the outgoing port)