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  1. It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
  2. Tor is a TCP only network.
  3. While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Edit: I misread the statement. Thanks for pointing this out to all the repliers! My fault.

The first point of the answer is misleading. Tor is indeed designed with anonymity in mind. The leaks occur in different layers, like the for e.g. chosen BitTorrent client.

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

He said torrent, not tor.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind, not Tor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Torrenting over TOR doesn't make you anonymous. How is that misleading?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's kind of what they said though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, I misread it the exact same way