The company can fail, as you mentioned. It helps to avoid perpetuating this predatory business model to overprice the monthly cost in order to force users to consider getting locked in a 1/2 year subscription. They sacrifice profit to get new users and they're operating at a loss - which makes them cut corners on the service, monetize off their users' data or depend on cash injections, ultimately leading to recent acquisition sprees of dubious companies. Ultra competitive long-term subscriptions prices aren't sustainable for these companies. This happens way more often that you'd think. You never know when one of these companies gets hacked or compromised, it's good idea to have short-term plans in order to quickly jump ship if necessary. u/iqBuster has a lot of threads with more information and tips, check them out. If you cannot tell which adapter is the one you should bind, check for differences when you connect/disconnect VPN.Ĭonfirm you're not leaking also via WebRTC, DNS (especially on Firefox), and IPv6. Skip the advice on disabling DHT or PeX though. #CYBERGHOST VPN TORRENTING HOW TO#
Use qBittorrent (FOSS), Tixati, or BiglyBT (FOSS) as only these torrent clients support interface binding.Ĭheck this step-by-step guide for Windows, Linux or macOS for how to set up interface binding. Here's a list of top recommendations with objective criteria. In addition, some more resources for new-comers:Ĭhoose a good VPN for torrenting. If you don't bind, you could leak torrenting traffic through your regular/real IP, which could result in copyright notices to say the least.Īnd, no, a kill-switch usually doesn't work/help.Įither your setup inherently, by design, stops torrent traffic when the VPN connection is down (binding, network namespaces, etc.) OR it doesn't. Rough concept of the end-goal: ASCII-diagram ( u/sn0skier), (obviously, it still reaches the VPN's servers via your regular internet connection)
Sorry for using emojis, but there are too many posts in this godforsaken sub that are dealing with this 1 simple issue.
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