I have been doing torrents + VPN for years now and thinking about switching.
Is usenet and debrid safe to use without a VPN in the UK? What about other piracy streaming sites?
From what I understand it’s cheaper to use a VPN than have debrid + usenet + private indexers but I am not sure.
I have heard some questionable justifications as to why it’s safer such as it being encrypted (torrents can also be encrypted). Are the index sites also safe? I have heard it both ways about this. Including people saying index sites are not encrypted which they normally are.
I use the usenet because leeching is legal in my country. I think, we wouldn’t be able to reach the speed we have with using a VPN to be honest. So, if it is possible to use the usenet without VPN in UK, I think you may have faster download speed, but I’m not quite sure if VPN is really the bottleneck, usually.
Speed is not the concern with using a VPN. Having to pay for both is the concern.
I guess with the new privacy killing law in UK, you always want to have a VPN ready, just in case… Talking about this https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/01/uk-online-safety-bill-set-to-weaken-encryption-and-put-uk-internet-users-at-risk/
