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I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't used torrents for years, and it's showing stuff. Not on a VPN currently, and it's showing the wrong location (a bit outside my city).

Anyone know why?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.

The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it's probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the URL and generate the preview, since it's different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0

Just fun to notice I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Hmm I had my buddy go to this and he claims his download history has things he never downloaded. He doesn’t use a VPN and no one in his house torrents but him. Also he primarily uses a seedbox. Confusing lol.

Oh he uses T-Mobile home internet so prob shares a public IP with more than a usual ISP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I'm in the same boat, I haven't torrented the "traditional" way in YEARS ever since I moved over to the superior Usenet

And yet, I'm seeing a small history list here as of a couple days ago hmmm and I'm on Crapcast so CGNET doesn't apply

Looks like I'll be doing some investigating today :/ maybe it's time I got off my ass and got Suricuta running on pfsense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What did your transition to Usenet look like? I just transferred from torrenting to Soulseek myself but it isn’t cutting it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I transitioned to using it primarily for Sonarr and Radarr for TV and Movies. Its mostly a set and forget it if you choose the right providers and indexers.

I don't sail the Music sea because Spotify has filled all my needs for the price, same for the Gaming sea because of Game Pass.

Software, I usually just look around for freeware/open source alternatives or pay for it if it's of quality and worth the price.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yay private trackers I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the link! I lost this a while ago and I was loathe to find it. It comes around, doesn’t it? 😊

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I have no idea what any of this is, but Japanese Mom 2 (in Korean) sounds promising.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just checked my own and was surprised nothing came up. I'd have thought I would have downloaded legit torrents from Ubuntu or Archive.org at the very least.

[–] HumanPerson 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I accidentally clicked on one of the similar IPs links without realizing and someone with that ip happened to have gotten some of the same stuff I did. I was briefly quite worried.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well they know what I downloaded but I dont really care . Is there anything my Canadian ISP can do ?

[–] can 3 points 10 months ago

There's a small chance you'll get a letter with no follow-up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't use a VPN nor I bother with one, I download movie torrents all the time (5 this week already) and the list is completely empty. I do have dynamic IP but ir usually only changes after I restart my router, which I haven't done for a month now.

[–] can 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nope, never used a private tracker before (forgot to add this). The site just seems innacurate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm fairly sure my ISP is dynamic by default, I remember a neighbour having to pay extra for a static IP for a camera networking issue.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lol it's showing a bunch of random shit.

Thing is, it's my phone's IP. I don't download anything on this thing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

proton vpn and nord vpn are the ones i use. both are great but nord is faster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nord doesn't support incoming NAT ports. Neither did Mullvad anymore for that matter. Does Proton?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Windscribe. I initially used it because the free version which gives you 10GB per month was enough for me. Then there was a deal on a lifetime subscription ages ago that I got for like $15.

If anyone wants a year subscription to Speedify VPN, DM me and I'll get you a key I got in a Humble Bundle years ago that I never used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just a little disclaimer: windscribe cannot be trusted for any other use than torrenting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this

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