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Sailing safely with a VPN (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have read some stuff about how if you are logged into like your google account while on your VPN you have pretty much given yourself away.

So first, is that accurate?

I just got a mullvad vpn and am using their browser. Created a new lemmy account. And I shut down my other browsers before connecting to the vpn to be on the safe side. Is that necessary? Anything else I need to do to sail the high seas anonymously and safely. I am looking to start finding all the movies that never seem to be on my many streaming services, but want to be safe about it. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not sure that transmission supports it, but other torrent clients (qbitorrent, deluge) allow binding the torrent client to your VPN interface. That way, you literally can't torrent on anything but your VPN connection (even if a killswitch fails/the VPN isn't running)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I’ll look into it, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Any suggestions on where to learn how to do this? I’m sailing on a Linux machine if it makes a difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's usually in the network settings of the torrent client. Usually listed with "IP interface binding" or some such.

Qbittorrent has it as a dropdown menu with a list of available IP's to use, as well as an option to set it manually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here: https://lemmy.world/comment/5269089

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure that transmission supports it

Yes transmission does support it, however if you're running in Linux you can also just restrict it to run on the VPN IP or interface. Read more here: https://lemmy.world/comment/5269089