I thought about using OpenVPN for piracy, since it’s open source and can be easily set up on Arch Linux. Does anyone know about the quality of it or if I should use another VPN?

  • PeachMan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    That is needlessly complicated. Just force qbittorrent to only use your VPN network interface and you don’t need any of that: https://lifehacker.com/you-should-really-bind-your-vpn-to-your-torrent-client-1849779407

    This has the advantage of giving you the “kill switch” feature without having to download your VPN’s proprietary app. It works with Wireguard, OpenVPN, whatever. Qbittorrent is actually one of the few clients that has this feature, one of the reasons it’s so widely recommended.

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      1 year ago

      Qbittorrent is actually one of the few clients that has this feature, one of the reasons it’s so widely recommended.

      Deluge can also do this.

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      1 year ago

      Make sense what you said my fellow pirate. Never used it and didnt want to recommend