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I highly encourage you to update the article to have a section for binding network interface to the VPN. I didn't do this and one day my vpn disconnected and it used me actual IP address and I got DMCA'd.
https://www.itopvpn.com/blog/qbittorrent-vpn-4498
It's there... Step 4 of the section "Download A Torrent Client". I didn't call it "binding an interface" because the intended target of this post would have no idea what that means.
Ah ok. Yeah I thought that was just a section for installing it but with no configurations. Seems like a good article for newbies then.
sorry, to hear that happened to you! I have paid VPN and use it to isolate devices on my network that i don’t trust (not torrenting).
I would never trust 100% a vpn running on the same machine as the app that needs the connection.
Probably super paranoid, but always use one of those VPN boxes with separate ethernet sockets - for input and out connection. Quite cheap on Amazon. I assume they run Linux and when they loose the VPN just crap out instead of exposing my home network.