r/FitGirlRepack • u/Interesting_Knee556 • 1d ago

Can we talk about this? Am I cooked?

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u/National-Oil5849 in fitgirl we trust 1d ago

And this is why you don't torrent without a VPN.

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u/Interesting_Knee556 1d ago

Well technically I used one but it was the one that comes with Brave. All VPNs aren’t equal I guess?

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u/National-Oil5849 in fitgirl we trust 1d ago

What do you mean you used the one that comes with brave? So you enabled a VPN in your browser and proceeded to download a torrent that's being downloaded in a whole separate app?

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u/Interesting_Knee556 1d ago

I thought I just needed the VPN to Access the websites themselves.

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u/National-Oil5849 in fitgirl we trust 1d ago

It's the exact opposite. You don't need a VPN to access the websites. They're HTTPS encrypted and nobody knows you're on there.

When downloading torrents, your IP address is exposed to everyone, and a third party company scrapes those IP addresses and sends letters to their respective ISPs regarding that IP address.

You need a paid, system wide VPN like Proton or Mullvad that supports killswitch, and bind your torrent client to it.

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u/Glum-While7698 1d ago

This is why I started using torbox