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no lol just don't seed if you're truly worried about it (but not seeding is not praxis)
When I used PIA I was absolutely unable to seed torrents (though I could still download). Currently I'm using Nord which lets me seed, but aside from that I don't have any particular reason to Stan them.
I never tried too hard to figure out what was going on with PIA though. My contract expired and I just decided to try something else. I assume they got threatened with legal action and negotiated to filter that outgoing traffic, though it could be anything really, including a misconfiguration on my end.
PIA got bought out by some serious fuckholes, use Mulvad. I switched, couldn't be happier.
Public or private tracker? Do you deed?
You should always have a VPN
It depends on what you mean. Both of the major VPN protocols in use are open source (OpenVPN and wireguard), but at the end of the day the servers are still going to be owned by someone so you should choose your provider carefully.
There's a bunch of resources out there to help you choose. I'm on my phone now but I'll try and link some of those later today when I'm back on a computer.
emphasis on the free and open source software,. But if free isn't an option, is Nord bad?
Hey sorry I totally forgot to come back to this. The privacytools website has some good recommendations, and I think their criteria for choosing providers make a lot of sense. I personally use Mullvad because I like that it supports wireguard, and their clients are robust and easy to use. Haven't tried Nord myself so I can't say. However according to that privacytools site Nord has had 2 security breaches in 2019 and 2020 respectively which is not a good look.
I wouldn't recommend using a free vpn. Like the other commenter said, you're paying to use their hardware. That means that being a vpn provider will always incur ongoing costs, in the form of renting servers/rackspace in a datacenter. This is not sustainable unless they are collecting revenue, and if they're not being paid by their users, then you have to wonder how they're making their money.
i2p has this cool anonymous torrenting thing, easy to set up and free
maybe the correct way to listen to audiobooks is by continually using peoples audible sponsorships
try doing the interview at myanonamouse.net. Very high quality e-book and audiobook private tracker.
you should seed 24/7 though.Ebook and audiobook trackers are a special case, and it's easy to upload new materials. If you have a library card, you can download books through that. If you don't have a library card, you can literally sign up for various libraries online with a fake address. If you have a kindle, there's an exploit that lets you download books without paying for them.
And once you've got a decent seed buffer, you can request books you might not be able to find elsewhere.
Most trackers have a requests page. If you filter by unfilled, and sort by recent, you're bound to find some that can be filled through a library whose materials you can access. Even better if you have a kindle since the vast majority of ebooks are sold by Amazon.
