I have been torrenting for 5 years, mainly TV shows and music, but occasionally a game or audiobook or something. I have had a pretty easy time downloading except for a few occasions.
A few years ago I was visiting my aunt and got a warning, and then also one warning at my house from Comcast and then another last year. However I've just gotten two warnings in the last couple months. I know there's a 6-strike policy now with Comcast, so I really need to conceal my IP address for my computer. I've never really done anything bad on my computer where I felt I needed to hide my IP address, but I'm not paying $1000s for music and TV shows.
What do you all use to hide your IP address? I've used a VPN before (in China to access FaceBook), and I've also read about seedboxes and Usenet and all that. What do you all use that you know 100% works? I cannot get another warning; unfortunately I haven't left myself room for mistakes.
seedbox, look up good sites within your price range. They can get dmca requests too so don't seed shit like game of thrones.
Hunter Anderson
What would you recommend downloading from instead of pirate bay?
Hudson Watson
If you wanna go the safest route, private ones like what.cd. Good luck getting an invite.
Isaiah Diaz
> >what.cd
Nolan Hughes
use a VPN
use opevpn + your vpn proider config files.. then set windows firewall to only allow your torrent client .exe to work on public connections to make a killswitch
Owen Gutierrez
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David Collins
*use a VPN you aren't hosting yourself Also >setting a killswitch at the windows level and not your router what trash. your router should also be connecting to the VPN in the first place
Alexander Jenkins
>what.cd >good luck getting an invite Good luck resolving an http connection, for that matter
Caleb Lee
>join a small group to commit federal crimes vs a public group with millions of user with the chance of inefficient bureaucracy misses you.
Oliver Moore
Fags like him will recommend private trackers
Robert Cook
NordVPN and private trackers.
Juan Gonzalez
Seedbox + sftp
Adrian Roberts
i see where you're going but i've gotten suspended from my isp from downloading on kat yet ive never been burned on wcd or hdb as long as people don't just give away invites to random people asking for them in ptg or on a sketchy forum this won't happen.
bare minimum to not get fucked over is to use a VPN while torrenting. i always recommend finding mega's and youtube-description-dropbox-files first before you start torrenting. if you must you should try to make some friends in the community of whatever you're into and seeing if anyone has an invite to a private tracker
also im very well aware i could be talking to NSA right now but im too tired to care
So what's a decently priced VPN services? I just need to bypass blocked sites, I'm using the built-in opera VPN is that safe?
Christian Myers
>americucks literally have to pay (for a VPN) to pirate LMAO
William Martinez
Opera's vpn (well, its just a https proxy) is rented by opera from surfeasy, which is about as shady as any other paid public proxy like pia/dotvpn/hidemyass etc you see in first few google results.
So yea, its a decent deal if thats the sort of thing you're looking for.
Blake Stewart
Welp, I've been using it to access facebook. Or is it safe?
Levi Evans
So from what I understand OP was using a VPN from China and still got caught? I have avast VPN to torrent, is that not enough to stop ISP warnings?
Hudson Lewis
Can GFW detect what goes on (ie facebook) through that proxy? No, its a https proxy, its all encrypted, it's generally legit as far as hiding traffic from your isp.
I'm more surprised this stuff works through GFW, usually all the well known public proxies, paid or free, are pretty dead in china.
Gabriel Foster
I know the ISP can't see what's happening. I'm more concerned about credentials being leaked or be a victim for MiTM attack.
Justin Powell
>credentials being leaked or be a victim for MiTM attack.
Only if your browse http websites. This goes for any proxy including tor, with http you trust the endpoints, which you generally shouldnt.
People were caught despite using vpns, simply because if you court subpoena a company, it must comply and start logging client traffic under gag order.
But generally only if people did some serious shit (ie fraud, hacking and such).
But for piracy or china tier censorship is somewhat unhread of, as that is too difficult to detect through the usual automation these state botnet systems do, and too many people use it.
Cameron Davis
i2p
Logan Flores
So you mean even if I use shady VPN, as long I browse HTTPS sites, it should be OK?
Joseph Roberts
Use common sense.
Depends how much shady. There are definitely some honeypots out there, chinese famously infested android market with backdoored VPNs, "mastervpn" and shit like that, google did crackdowns on those recently.
The problem was simply the app itself had shit snooping on you, in addition to routing traffic to mainland VPN entrypoint - which is always super suspicious - hows that supposed to bypass GWF again? Bottom line, it somehow did.
So yea, don't install suspicious software. But openvpn config for some windows 2000 softether server in finland, or https opera proxy in germany? Always a good place for torrenting if your government is assblasted about retarded shit like piracy or facebook.
Luis Brown
I'm not OP, so not interested in torrenting. Also I was wondering if these are safe to use to browse facebook and stuff like that. sslproxies.org/
Samuel Brown
>as long as people don't just give away invites to random people asking for them in ptg or on a sketchy forum this won't happen
Are you kidding? The only people who have the ability to jump through hoops and mod dick on private trackers are neets and people who get paid for it. They will eventually figure it out anyway
Easton Phillips
These are scanned proxies. Not overly bad, but generally slow, shitty and not encrypted (that website is just some bullshit marketing to sell you lists of scanned/botnet proxies).
No, proxylists are meh these are very slow, unencrypted - its just random garbage people scanned gaping open on the internet, its mostly used only for spam and fraud.
https proxy means you connect to the proxy itself with https, and it's typically not an open proxy either (ie you need to get l/p for the proxy somehwere). Which is what things like opera vpn does. You can rip the opera auth credentials and use it with anything else - other browser, bittorrent and so on:
