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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR(tor.stackexchange.com)

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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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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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Tor was also built by the Navy right? I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t make it easy to get away with breaking the law over that

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Vub@lemmy.world
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You misunderstand, this is not the issue here. It is just not made for torrents and they hurt/break the network.

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WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Specifically, it overloads the network. A single VPN server used for torrenting (proton, air, nord, etc) deals more traffic than the whole Tor network.

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