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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

An alternative to using a VPN as your "privacy shield" could be the I2P network https://lemmy.world/post/19661215

I don't torrent so this may not be ideal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very few torrents make use of I2P as far as I know, given that people have to specifically enable it when using a torrent client such as qBittorrent.