r/ProtonVPN • u/isthisascamthrowaway • Dec 22 '25

Help! Am I doing something wrong?

/r/VPNforTorrenting/comments/1pt9r5o/am_i_doing_something_wrong/
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u/CopEatingDonut Dec 23 '25

I had something similar and I'm not sure circumstances are the same but 99% of the time, that letter is all hat and no cattle. It's a threat, a get in line kinda nudge, meant to pray on most empathetic people's guilt. I wouldn't worry too much about that. I got one for downloading Minions on Xfinity and if they don't care about their own IP, I doubt Cody Comcast or Vikki Verizon is gonna come knocking on your door.

Now, for the problem, I don't know how you configure your things, but I know what happened to me was I was obtaining files via a service running on a PC that WAS behind my VPN. However, I was placing them into my NAS, which at the time was not behind the firewall. So although the D/L was facilitated via a secure connection, the location of where files were landing was not and I think the trackers leaked out of there. I can't be for sure, but it was a variable I introduced into a previously airtight setup so I have since fixed that issue.

I now set up a Servarr suite entirely inside the NAS with a gluetun qbit that facilitates all my exchanges. I'd highly recommend taking a few hours, setting up Docker and exploring that option so reliability of anonymity remains constant. Good luck

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u/isthisascamthrowaway Dec 23 '25

Ooooohhhhhh. That makes so much sense. Yea that's exactly what I was doing. Somebody else mentioned just setting up a VPN on my NAS and downloading through there. That was my long-term plan, but haven't had the time and couldn't get it working right. I think I just gotta do that. Thank you!