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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello! I recently set up my first home server, and would like to set up qbittorrent on it. I tried using protonVPN, which is what I use on desktop, but got rate limited because torrenting on the free plan is not allowed. What do you think of hide.me vpn? it has a CLI linux version, I think I can install it inside the docker container and set up a killswitch (that should be built in? at least that's what they say) to torrent safely.

I know paid VPNs are better and also pretty cheap, but I cannot afford one right now. Any tips?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

free services get paid somehow. i wouldnt trust them

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

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

I know, but It's better than exposing my IP, right? I mean, do I actually risk something using the free plan?

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

this is what I was using with protonVPN, but I'm not sure if I can configure it also for hide.me because it is not in the supported providers

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

Just go with mullvad, so far it is the only VPN I know of that allows you to pay with physical currency with zero papertrail back to you.

Mullvad.net

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could afford it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Didn't Mullvad ban torrenting?~~

edit: looked it up, looks like they didn't. Can't remember what I read that said they did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they disabled port forwarding makin torrenting more difficult, don‘t quote me on that though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah, that sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whatever free provider you want, pick one that supports OpenVPN, as that is where you can force gluetun to work generic-ly. i seemed to recall some instructions for non-preconfig OpenVpn connections. .. maybe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

doesn't it also supports wireguard?

[–] BlackSkinnedJew 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is a forum where people sell game accounts and there are VPN accounts too, you can buy one for like 3 USD though PayPal for at least 6 months or something, as they are shared accounts probably the one you get would be renewed for another year or maybe more, google "playerup" good luck folk. 🙏🤞 Wish you a happy life..

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

uhm this sounds like a more affordable solution... thanks for pointing it out! tomorrow I'll look into it for sure!

[–] BlackSkinnedJew 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are welcome mate, I have like 3 years buying accounts there, and I believe they are indeed more secure than normal accounts too cos the VPN provider also didn't get your personal info, so you are just using a random account who could be used for a bunch of other people too at the same time, ultimate anonymous shit..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean mullvad also doesn't have any personal info

[–] BlackSkinnedJew 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If mullvad it's that cheap and anonymous throw the link to check it asap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mullvad.net

5€/month no matter how long

[–] BlackSkinnedJew 1 points 1 year ago

Thx for the info mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just self host, it's free on Oracle cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This Gameranx video has a NordVPN sponsorship for a lower rate and 4 free months - it's pretty dang affordable. If you can afford to get that, I'd definitely do that!

https://youtu.be/-Oiuu-Iw094

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious to hear why you think that, I've been using it for a year and it's better than ExpressVPN by a long-shot. Very few connectivity problems either and it has a Linux client....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because there are VPN's that dont log your activity such as protonVPN and mulvad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even in that article it says the only info they can provide (due to the no-logging) is payment info and email address.

If you're doing something illegal and use a credit card attached to your name to do it, Nord is going to hand over your credit card info and they'll know you did it through their VPN.

Likewise, if you do something illegal with their VPN and use your personal email, same thing.

That being said, I don't personally use the VPN for anything illegal. If you do, I suppose you should probably either self-host or just Mull, but in my case I like Nord's Killswitch and Mull's is notorious for dropping off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is payment info and email address.

I think you still dont get it. Most poeple in this community pirate, which is illegal in most contries.

Most people here want privacy, meaning a vpn that doesnt give away payment info, and other PII. Because of that, there are very few safe vpn's out there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/-Oiuu-Iw094?si=Qc6xx8WX62UPMMk0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.