Hello! I have some q’s about torrenting as the title implies. First, I know that torrenting requires a VPN capable of P2P, but i cant afford a vpn with such capabilities. is there any free ones available?

Second, if i end up being able to do so, where should i torrent from? i’ve heard of the pirate bay but honestly that’s it.

Third, what is the best torrent client to use for this?

any help would be appreciated, thank you and good day comrades comrade-doggo

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you can’t afford a good VPN, you can’t afford to torrent.

    If you don’t pay for something, you are the merchandise. And the last thing you want is a VPN that sells you out, when your primary use case is to do something illegal with it.

  • donkeystomple@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty new to torrenting as well. To answer your questions based on the personal research I’ve done.

    1. You absolutely require a VPN. Definitely a paid one. The free ones are not of good quality and a lot of them are more than likely to be detrimental to your privacy. Also P2P is not a requirement for torrenting. All it does is it enables you to make more connections in the swarm and making the torrent download faster. Some good recommendations of VPN’s with port forwarding I’ve seen thrown around are Proton VPN, Airvpn. Options without port forwarding are Mullvad, or IVPN.

    2. I’ve been using 1337x for movies and TV shows and it’s been great. I’ve also heard Torrent Galaxy is good as well. As always though be really careful with what you download no matter what. Always run a scan on files you download.

    3. Qbittorrent is the best.

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. P2p isn’t a must, especially after mullvad fiasco.

    2. Look into Sonarr, Radarr, and jackett. Seriously, after months of being too lazy to set it up, I caved and am never going back. If you just want to stream torrents download stremio with the torrentio plugin.

    3. Qbittorrent.

    • Okalaydokalay@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What’s the “Mullvad fiasco”?

      Edit: after searching Lemmy, I found that about 6 days ago people were talking about Mullvad disabling port forwarding. Is this the “fiasco”? I just want to make sure I know exactly what’s going on.