How does this firm (or whatever it is) know I torrented something? My VPN app took a shit in the middle of a download and I think it exposed my IP to some “anti-piracy” bullshit firm that contacted my ISP. ISP emailed to let me know and to “not do it again”. How does this firm know about torrenting? Do they like watch these sites and hope someone’s VPN slips like mine did today?

  • ducklingone@lemmy.todayEnglish
    301·
    5 months ago

    Bind your torrent client to your VPN interface so that if the VPN loses connection for whatever reason, nothing downloads or uploads via your client.

    • penquin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      I’m gonna need a lot of education before I start torrenting 🤦🏽‍♂️ I didn’t even know such thing existed. How do I do that?

      • ducklingone@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I’m using qBittorrent’s web ui, and you get to the setting from Options (cog symbol)->Advanced tab->Network Interface. Figuring out which network interface is the VPN interface depends on your OS.

        • penquin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          31·
          5 months ago

          Ok, so I found that and changed it from “any interface” to “proton0”. So that means, now if my vpn is not connected, my qBittorrent won’t work anymore?

          • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            Exactly, it will now only be able to access the Internet via that interface even if proton is running but not actually connected.

            • penquin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              31·
              5 months ago

              I don’t to keep bugging you about it, but proton connects like three freaking networks, one is pvpnsomethingsomething, the other one is killswitch and the third is ipv6leakprotection. I chose all three and qbitorrent just stalls on each one of them :/

              • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
                3·
                5 months ago

                Sorry for the delay, just saw this.

                So the “pvpnsomthingsomething” is most likely the name of the server you’re connecting to, but if you’re not using the paid tier for Proton it won’t let you select servers that support peer to peer traffic. Sounds like that might be your issue if you’re still getting stalled with that network connection selected.

                Also, the killswitch and the ipv6 “networks” that it creates are just there to enforce the killswitch (ie. create a fallback dead-end network device if the VPN goes down) and to catch and dead-end any ipv6 traffic that might be leaking.

                • penquin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
                  3·
                  4 months ago

                  Got it. Thank you so much. I was testing protonvpn to see if it’s any good. I’m going to get the plus version then and just start from there.