I want to try bitmagnet on the dev server at work (yes, we have permission to use it for personal reasons as long it's legal) but for obvious reasons it must be tunneled through a VPN.
Bitmagnet it's a local search engine that discovers content via DHT. It just asks peers for content, then when you come back the following month it should have found many interesting stuff
Problem is that from a network point of view it looks I want to download every single torrent ever made so I wouldn't want to have my workplace ip address associated with that.
Because the network traffic is minimal and for this content I don't care if the provider does data mining, I would like to use a free VPN with gluetun.
But I can't find a free one that works. From the officially supported only windscribe and proton have a free offer, but windscribe free doesn't have OpenVPN or wireguard, while proton VPN free blocks me immediately as soon as the program talks with other peers, even if I don't actually download anything.
So back to the question, which free VPNs are working with gluetun, someone has experience with that?
Don't do this.
It is a terrible idea.
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Free services have negative interest in protecting user's privacy, they would mine the shit out of that data.
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Since you are doing this from a company network and split tunneling is not 100% secure, this means that your company computer will send internal communications through the VPN, where it will be mined the shit out of.
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Since you are talking about torrenting, even if you are just consuming small ammounts of data, don't be surprised if the VPN provider eill either block you immediately, or hand over suspicious logs to the police/media companies.
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You claim to have permission to do this, I am pressing X to doubt, if you had proper permission to do this you would not need to use a free VPN, the company would either have the technical and legal infrastructure to deal with this, or they would provide you with a good paid VPN like Mullvad.
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This sounds extremely sketchy to me, and unless I have a written and signed order to do this in this manner I would refuse to do this work, and even then I would want a written and signed order for the specific time I had to do it.
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If you have a rooted phone you can extract Windscribe wireguard config file even on free plan. Data directory.
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wd.vp is the wireguard config file.
Don't listen to soy nerds being akshually this is a bad idea. Do what you want.
That said,
Be careful with DHT scrapers though. Those things will find much more illegal stuff than pirated stuff, I'm talking about CSAM, even if you don't download it even having the magnet could be illegal.
Don't use a free one. Use ProtonVPN or Mullvad VPN. In general even for normal browsing. Free VPNs are trash.
Windscribe gives you 10GB in the free tier, for testing purpose, that should be plenty.
problem is that the in the free tier the web panel doesn't give you the credentials for clients other than the official one, which can't be used on this operating system. But i read that with a rooted phone it's possible to extract that - gonna try it
VPNGate is free and they do offer OpenVPN config but they do keep logs unfortunately and idk if torrenting is allowed
