Add torrents safely and turn them to DDLs (like a Seedbox)
Bypass filelocker limits on speed and number of DLs
Can be used with services like Stremio to give you higher quality streaming links that are precached - which means no torrenting, no buffering and of coure, no risk of getting caught.

Maybe add something about 'fines' - lots of people mistaken think their ISP can fine them. This is just not true. Only a court, or in some places the police, can issue penalty fines. There is no country in the world that allows ISPs to fine its customers.

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[–] nerdman83@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Keep in mind, if you are using a VPN, connecting to Netflix will fail, your banking institutions, including PayPal, will flag your account and potentially shut it due to suspicious login behavior.

I think that text is misleading since if you use OpenVPN you can get ovpn files from your provider and set up a split-tunnel configuration. All traffic except torrents will go out your normal connection.

Then set qBittorrent to ONLY use the OpenVPN virtual ethernet port as its connection and it's a kill switch, if VPN isn't connected qBittorrent won't connect.

You just need to put this in your ovpn file from your VPN provider:

proto udp
dev tun
keepalive 10 120
nobind

persist-key
persist-tun

dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222
dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220
block-outside-dns

route 0.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 64.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 128.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway
route 192.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 net_gateway