PSA: Don't torrent over TOR

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.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn’t give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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/

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

He said torrent, not tor.

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

That’s kind of what they said though?

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

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

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

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

I torrent without any protection or vpn, its legal here

That’s great for you and the community, as you aren’t torrenting over TOR 👍

Does TOR have some utility for the average tech people? Just curious I havent used it.

If you enjoy drugs that’s probably the most use you’ll get out of it besides what the other guy said abt using it when vpns are blocked by ur network

Great for privacy. So great, that half the internet won’t let you browse, because they can’t sell you data for money.

Uh, “journalism”

If vpns are blocked on the network you are on, tor usually has a way to work.

Don’t worry. They’ll reply with their location once the daily power outage is over.

Canada? Idk the actual legality but I’ve been torrenting bare for nearly two decades and have only received two meaningless warnings from my ISP in that time.

Tends to only work in small towns. I never recieved a letter or warning until I moved to Vancouver, and then got one within a month

Same here. Whilst torrent sites themselves are blocked, once you get the magnet link/torrent via a proxy/VPN, there is no issue. I do not think anyone has ever received a cease and desist letter from their ISPs here. But then, I think, this is the case for many countries outside of the developed world.

Any plan on doing torrent over veilid?

How does veilid compare to I2P?

It seems like a mix between tor and i2p.

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