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i only see vpns useful for torrenting if you live in a country with shitty piracy laws. for anything else theres tor

vpns are a honeypot that u pay to shell ur data. i agree w/ >>24616, but an easier method is jus binding proxychain to ur torrenting client, and just using free proxies on spysdotone or etc.

>>24613
>VPN
If you don't know that most VPNs are a scam then why are you even using this site? That's terrible opsec.

Tor should be sufficient for regular browsing and I2P is good for the tasks that require faster speeds (such as torrenting, streaming and online gaming). Only when that's not enough (I2P only works with eepsites for example) should you use a trusted VPN like Mullvad.

There should be a thread about why you shouldn't use VPNs instead.

>>24624
>an easier method is jus binding proxychain to ur torrenting client, and just using free proxies on spysdotone or etc
Care to elaborate, my friend? I know about Tor, I2P and Mullvad but spysdotone is something I've never heard of. I also know about JohnDonym but it seems to be dead…

>>24626 (me)
Wait, is JohnDonym dead, mates?

>>24626
ofcourse, spys.one is simply a Russian website which publishes proxies, from http to socks5, that allow anyone to connect to using a client, such as proxychains-ng (github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng). it has an english-language website at spys.one/en, but i wouldn't recommend it, as it forces u to unanonymize and use javascript to read portnumbers. the proxies are all across the world, and their anonymity is recorded, from NOA to HIA. i'd give a better alternative website, but i don't know of any.
you simply copy and paste a proxy on the website, the ip address and the port (example: 127.0.0.1:80), add it to proxychains's configuration file (available on linux systems at //etc/proxychains.conf, if ur on a different OS there is a FAQ at the github website i hve linked), and then u run the command "proxychains [app]". that's it.
to test the connection, you can proxy your terminal using "proxychains bash", or substitute [bash] with whatever shell ur computer uses, and "curl ip.me" to check. it should output some proxychains code, and return the IP address u set in //etc/proxychains.conf.
lmk if this is too confusing, i realize it may be alot

Does someone have experience with setting up i2pd? On my last try every connection attempt failed. Months later i deleted the muli-gigabyte data it wrote and deinstalled it. Does I2P use some type of traffic ISPs can block?
Also, thoughts on Lokinet and Yggdrasil?

>>24628
Thank you, my friend, very based and redpilled info as the kids say.
>>24631
>Does I2P use some type of traffic ISPs can block?
Perhaps. I've only used Tor.
>Yggdrasil
Heard about it, but I've no idea what it is and how it works. Something-something mesh network. If it's another darknet then it's little of use to me since it's even more niche than fucken Freenet. Which already loses to Tor and I2P in adoption. It's a shame really, GNUnet tries to fix the privacy issues of TCP/IP. Which is based but GNUnet is not particularly popular unfortunately. Fuck TCP/IP, this garbage protocol.

mullvad and cryptostorm if u dont know what ur doing
ive gotten decent torrenting speeds with mullvad

>>24659
Cryptostorm are interesting. They ran a useful throttled free service for years then stopped suddenly when Ukraine happened and didn't answer questions about it on twitter while posting about other shit. They eventually acknowledged that it was nuked weeks later after people spent days troubleshooting the connection. Then they said that it was something to do with server failure and that they would reinstate the service. They never did.

Tor should be sufficient for regular browsing and I2P is good for the tasks that require faster speeds (such as torrenting, streaming and online gaming). Only when that's not enough (I2P only works with eepsites for example) should you use a trusted VPN like Mullvad.

>>24631
>>24639
Yggdrasil unlike Tor and I2P is NOT anonymous and a lot faster for this reason, it can be used as a vpn if you set your AllowedPublicKeys to routers you own. Also you don't have to do any hole punching on a NAT unless you want to become a public peer and it can make direct connections to routers on your LAN for greater speed.
Been using it for a while to ssh my home computer while away, good alternative to a vpn considering you don't need to subscribe or even register to a service.

>>24794
>Yggdrasil unlike Tor and I2P is NOT anonymous
Then what's the freaking point?

>>24625
>If you don't know that most VPNs are a scam then why are you even using this site?
VPNs are good for shitposting and getting banned and then coming back to the site under a nu IP

>>24799
jus use proxychains-ng on free proxies and bind it to ur broswer, no need to waste money

>>24795
Not as an outproxy for web browsing but to connect computers you trust and selfhost services on them; the purpose for what VPNs were actually made for

>>24812
real nordvpn has rly bastardized the term.

>>24813
I don't think proxies give you much privacy. Now Tor or I2P…

>>24820
yes i agree, free proxies hosted by da glowies r obviously inferior to TOR and I2P, even when randomly proxied.. bu sum r decent, u can run tests to determine anonymity.

>>24821
Please anon, stop this violence.

>>24821
>tests
What tests?

>>24824
when i say anonymous, i mean da proxy dont frwd ur request to whtrvr service online w/ ur ip address linked to. yes, there may b sun fag on the other side in Indonesia (i nvr use any proxy originatin from one of the Five Eye countries, i.e. australia, canada, u.k., n.z., an burgerland, an neithr shld u), whose loggin my ip adress to sell on Breach. bu for smaller scale crimes, such as torrentin an proxying for better connections, such as against a firewall, the damage risk is minimal an idrc. i only use proxies that r registered as anonymous, v.s. one dat's transparent, and wut i mean is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields
r u familiar w/ this? "transparent", non-anonymous, proxies r ur traditional proxies which will format ur requests that u put thru the proxy as "X-Forwarded-for: [URIPADDRESS]". anonymous proxies, on the other hand, won't include this in the http header, bu they might myb include a "Via" to indicate dat its a proxy. u can test whether ur proxy does this by runnin it against websites that'll test wut data the proxy sends bck, like this one:
https://www.whatismyip.com/proxy-check/
>>24822
i do agree with this Anon howeva, if ur stupid and doin RLY stupid shit online, u should not just frwd ur criminal shit thru sum rando's computer, this is a RossUlbrict-lvl opsec mishap. in those cases, use Tor, i2p outproxies (when the network actually works an doesn´t crumble to one malicious actor, like literally a coupla days ago), or Mullvad.

>>24827
Thank you for the information, though it's rather hard to read what you wrote. But yeah, that makes sense that it's better for a lower threat model, I might consider using this. Is it more private than using Mullvad though?

>>24794
.onions are also great for punching through NATs and it's anonymous. That's how onionshare works.

>>24831
mb itz the burger in me, i type weird. i mus admit i can't be much help to u here as ion use Mullvad vpn, but i'm doin my own research rn on their website, accessible here: https://mullvad.net/en/servers
<issues of physical safety
when i peruse their server list, it seems a majority of their servers r in the five eyes nations, and/or European countires. my concern lies w/ the physical security of these locations. sure, myb mullvad could decline indicments an fed requests for data from their personal logs, but can mullvad personally ensure the safety of the physical server locations? ik in the past darnket websites, such as AlphaBay and Hansa, housed they servrs in Europe and these were eazily seized by Euro-Glowies. with hoppin on Asian-none-of-the-above countries proxies listed on spys.one for instance, i can atleast kno that there's a very probability they won't be physically raided.
>issues of digital safety
i would imagine that due to the paid nature of Mullvad, it would be safer for communicatin w/ another anon ur criminal stuff. bu again, threat models r important here. if ur worried about encryption and keepin ur mssgs to other Anons safe, employ PGP an don't rly on ur client's encryption methods!! the recent icognito market scam is a good example of this.

>>24836
Thanks a lot, anon. You did a good job.