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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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

I'm definitely not an expert on Bittorrent, but I believe the person above was incorrect - I think there are some extensions to the protocol that enable UDP transport, but typically Bittorrent traffic occurs primarily via TCP.

What you said makes perfect sense in that hypothetical context, though!