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I pay for Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu+Spotify (student package which is only $5/month), and of course, NordVPN for torrenting everything else. I also have Amazon Prime student which I bought specifically for shipping. Don’t use it much except to watch The Grand Tour.

Edit: edited for clarity. My sentence structure was initially poor leading everyone to believe I pay $5 for everything.

Hijacking your comment for anyone who doesn't know:

• In Qbittorrent: Options>Advanced>Network Interface

• For me, it was properly set to Ethernet 2, which means it was running through Nord VPN.

• If you're not sure which one is your VPN, do the following:

1. With your VPN turned off, open the "Run" app (aka the DOS thing)

2. Type CMD and hit enter

3. Type ipconfig/all

4. Leave that window open, then turn on your VPN. Then type ipconfig/all again.

5. Compare your two sets of results with each other. The VPN should show up the second time you run it.

6. Look for something like Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2. Under that, it should say NordVPN somewhere. If it does, then you want to set your network interface in QBittorrent to Ethernet 2. If Nord is listed under something else, set your interface to that instead.

7. Additionally, inside of your Nord interface, go to settings>app kill switch>add applications, then find qbittorrent and add it. You can also turn on the Internet Kill Switch, but you have to remember to either turn it off or always run your VPN. This should kill your connection if there's a leak or if you forget to close Qbittorrent before you shut down your VPN.

EDIT: You silly bastards, giving me your silver and gold. Go spend it on a good VPN!

> has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of independent movie companies earlier this year. As part of the deal, the VPN agreed to block all BitTorrent traffic and log IP-address information on its US servers. While this a controversial order, says that users are still protected as the company will stop using US servers.

"Responding to the news, informs TorrentFreak that it will continue to keep its users private. While it agreed to the terms above, the company says that it will circumvent the measures by discontinuing its US servers.

“We do not intend to log our customers so we will stop offering US servers. We refused to share any information about our customers, which we don’t have anyway,” a VPN spokesperson informed TF.

“We are not big enough to keep fighting,” adds, stressing that it will continue to protect users."

Please upvote this for others to see. It is a relatively easy fix.

1. Go to your Deezloader intallation directory
2. Go to the resources/app directory
3. Open the file called deezer-api.js with notepad
4. CTRL+F and enter the following: Deezer.prototype.init
5. Replace that part of the code with the following one:

​

Deezer.prototype.init = function(username, password, callback) { var self = this; NRrequest.get({url: self.apiUrl, headers: self.httpHeaders, qs: Object.assign({method:"deezer.getUserData"}, self.apiQueries), json: true, jar: true}, (function(err, res, body) { if(!err && res.statusCode == 200) { self.apiQueries.api_token = body.results.checkForm; NRrequest.post({url: "https://www.deezer.com/ajax/action.php", headers: this.httpHeaders, form: {type:'login',mail:username,password:password,checkFormLogin:body.results.checkFormLogin}, jar: true}, (function(err, res, body) { if(err || res.statusCode != 200) { callback(new Error("Unable to load deezer.com")); }else if(body.indexOf("success") > -1){ callback(null,null); }else{ callback(new Error("Incorrect email or password.")); } })); } else { callback(new Error("Unable to load deezer.com")); } }).bind(self)); }

1. Save the file and try to login. Enjoy.

ALL CREDITS GOES TO u/sdlnv.

I've always used NordVPN for torrenting, gaming etc.

Before I had Nord, I was caught, got a letter and had to pay $900. Now, after subscribing to Nord everything is perfect.

Remember to use a VPN

The Blender blocking wasn't a false flag though, Youtube is forcing them to monetize their videos: https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

EDIT: I just saw the update 2

Lidarr does that.

> Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

https://github.com/lidarr/Lidarr

I know this is a joke, but I just want to say that I watched this one last week after it showed up right on the tippy top of my Netflix feed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, use https://flickmetrix.com to find movies to watch instead. 👍

depends on the ascii artist
they use ascii programs like: ascii art maker, ascii art studio, etc
but the nfos you posted are basic..
and best prog to see nfo in windows is infekt: https://infekt.ws/
edit: see this nfo.. https://postimg.cc/TLRSr4f1

May I suggest https://gg.deals as an alternative to key resellers. It can tell you where to get games the cheapest on approved websites (no key resellers) and has other features like price charts, wishlists, email/browser alerts etc.

I'm recommending the tool https://lockhunter.com/.

With this tool you can find out what blocks any file and most of the time remove the lock.

EDIT: It is not an answer to the question or the fact that the game spies on its players. I just wanted to share this tool, because I'm using it since many years, and it may be helpful in some situations.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chromeThis is the Github page. I use the Mozilla version.

Please remove if this is in violation of sub rules.

Since you mention ProtonVPN, by default ProtonVPN would redirect all DNS requests.

Their goal is to make it that NordVPN will be the first thing people think of when they'll start considering some form of online security, not so that they'll stop whatever they're doing right now and buy the product

Can we talk about using uTorrent? Please consider using Transmission, which was made for OSX *(edit, it works on almost every OS now)

https://transmissionbt.com/download/

It's just much cleaner UI and doesn't have ads..

1. https://zeronet.io/ can't be taken down (afaik) and there are a few torrent sites on there already. They don't get any mainstream attention because they're harder to access than a standard webpage and for most that's as far as they'll go
2. As soon as you add money to the equation the idea of free file-sharing dies. There's also a more steep learning curve and barrier to entry that will put more people off than it brings in

Configure your torrent client to use the network adapter generated by your VPN software. I use PIA, it created an adapter called "Private Internet Access Network Adapter" which i called PIA Connect. Here is how you can configure qBittorrent to only use that adapter.

For example, the complete package of Netter's medical ilustration usually cost 999$ but they have it on "offer" for 949.

This book about fractures cost 610$ dollars, for example.

And those are amazon's prices, you don't even wanna know about the markup those books get in my home country.

Looking for lossless:

• What.cd (private)

• Rutracker (public)

Looking for lossy:

Here is how you can get 320/CBR music.

• Sign up for a free trial here

• Download this browser

• Sign in to the site's streaming service using the browser above

• Find a song you want and play it

• Now click the 'Resource Sniffer' app and you will see something like '7qef04zorymwr5t46iyz.mp3'

• Click 'download' and you now have the song

Quoting /u/FitGirlLV

>No, it's bullshit. RuTracker rules prohibit any links in the installers. And my installer has active link in the GUI + optional opening of my homepage if checkbox is checked.

Which adds up.

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=488848#ad

>advertising third-party resources . This applies to both individual files (for example, spam.url , ***. Nfo , or text file prochitay.txt containing messages about earnings in the Internet), and addresses in the names of folders / files in the distribution.

>I'm looking at both free and paid VPNs

Free VPNs are terrible and dodgy, NEVER use them. They normally keep logs, track what you do, have dns leaks etc etc etc.

As for paid VPNs, I recommend TorGuard but others such as PIA, NordVPN, ExpressVPN and BTGuard are also good.

TorGuard offers a completely no log service (means you can't get caught when downloading certain things), high end encryption, servers in over 50+ countries, shared services (makes it harder to track a single user), leak protection (something that free and some paid VPNs don't have), it's own DNS servers, kill switch (very important), and a 2 account system meaning that the VPN account can't be connect w/ a billing account.

They also add more servers and location upon the request of us customers. For £4/month it's the best imo.

There's no question, if you are going to keep downloading torrents locally then get a VPN, period, no further questions needed, nothing else to wonder.

Any paid one is better than nothing for the most part. Ones I've used are IPVanish, NordVPN, VyprVPN, and ExpressVPN, all good ones. Private Internet Access is good too.

Get one of those, and again no further questions about it if you still want to download.

No problem!

Think of a VPN almost like having a personal librarian between you and the internet. When your computer goes to make a request for a particular web page, instead of going straight into the library and looking for the book it asks the librarian and they go get it for you. Previously your ISP could watch you go get the book and make a note of what book, where you got it, etc but now they just see you go to the librarian.

So before your traffic might look like this to the ISP:

Your computer ->

Now it will look like this:

Your computer ->

In reality it looks more like this:

Your computer -> -> -> back to the VPN -> back to you

As an added bonus, YouTube used to see this:

Canadian IP from your computer ->

But now they'll see:

IP of wherever your server is located ->

So if I watch to watch some John Oliver I can pretend to be an American cause American media doesn't like to share.

Setting up a VPN can be difficult or easy depending on how you want to do it. You could set up your own VPN for full control/lower costs, but generally you can find lots of other options out there. I'd recommend using a service for the ease/ability to change vpn country. Personally I use NordVPN, and overall I like them but I find they work better on my phone then my computer. On my computer depending on the network it can slow my internet a bit and you can't change any settings unless you're online to sign into the app. My phone doesn't have these issues. I'm sure others will chime in with other recommendations as well.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'll answer as best I can and when I'm wrong people will correct me :)

In Windows 10 and 11 is a feature called windows sandbox. It’s like a vm but lighter weight en when you close it, it trows away the vm. So every time you get a clean vm. I use it for testing a application, if it has malware I can throw away the whole vm.

Windows Sandbox

A totally legal site that a lot of people seem to miss, takes Project Gutenberg transcriptions and formats it in a way that makes it look better for e-book standards, that is standardebooks.org/ebooks.

Girlfriend works in China and they are very anti-VPN there. It’s a cat and mouse game on a daily basis since everything is blocked - Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and hundreds of other sites. All the foreigners who work with her and need VPN access pretty much either use Astrill VPN or Express VPN. They are the only 2 that can get through The great firewall of China. Both VPNs have dedicated teams that try to get through the China blocks. Girlfriend used Express for the first few years but torrenting became a problem. Now she’s on Astrill and everything - Netflix, torrents work great. These 2 VPNs rarely have discounts if ever and are much more expensive than the usual buy for a year and get 5 years free type VPN. If they can get through China then anywhere else is a piece of cake!

> ... Mohamed Faouani hoped to turn things around. In a motion to dismiss filed in May, the defendants argued that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Virginia federal court.

> ... didn’t specifically target people in the state. In fact, Faouani had never heard about Virginia before he was sued.

This is somehow the funniest thing I've read all week

Hi /u/myfeetsmellallday,

While this is an implementation detail we'll likely revisit in the future, the core limitation here is the lack of app-segregated storage on the PC platform (especially Windows).

Installed apps are trusted by design to read any of the user's files, including files from other apps. We don't normally consider this a security vulnerability unless it somehow allows privilege escalation.

Whilst your username and password are used to authenticate on to the PIA service, they do not affect and are not connected in anyway to your encryption, thus ensuring that your traffic is secure.

We would also remind users that you can change your password in the Customer Control Panel and we always encourage using secure and unique passwords as illustrated in our helpdesk article here.

Just for clarity and transparency, I'm the Senior Vice President of Customer Expeience for Private Internet Access.

There's also AdNauseam which is a fork of uBlock Origin but "clicks" on the ads in the background so the websites still get their money and you don't have to disable the ad blocker to "support" a website. That's why Google banned it from the store and you have to install it manually.

VPNs mask your internet activity from your Internet Service Provider. You can even use NordVPN to change your region and unlock content not available on streaming services in your own country! Want to watch The Office UK? Just change your region to one of NordVPN’s MANY servers across the world!

All VPNs do work the same(hide IP/location), but many keeps logs that can be traced back to you and if you use any VPNs in the 14th eyes the governments in those eyes can requests that data from each other. Like the FBI getting data from a US company and giving it to a government entity within those 14 eyes when they request it.

NordVPN is located in Panama while PIA is located in the USA which is also within the 5 eyes. You could go with PIA since it’s been proven in court that they don’t keep logs but better safe than sorry to use a VPN outside the Five/Nine/Fourteen eyes. There’s also no restrictions for countries to hosts VPNs in other countries outside the 14th eye so they can collect their own data; for example the USA making a VPN service in Panama.

This website is good for comparing a lot of VPNs.

Protonail was legally obligated to give ip addresses of a specific user because of Swiss law surrounding email. the laws are different for vpns, they cannot be compelled to hand over data for ProtonVPN.

edit: they did not have ip addresses on hand, they were forced to start logging for one specific user and then forced to hand those over.

TLDR: as long as its not email, and you are not a Swiss criminal, you are safe with proton

Because huge sites can't be run from a basement in Romania? A CDN is just one part of the infrastructure necessary to support a large web presence.

NordVPN or Private Internet Access. They're worth it.

Look for a recent tech video (Maybe Linus Tech tip or his other channels) and use some sort of code from them. Nord and PIA sponsors a lot of these tech channels.

That' what you get for using a US based VPN, they have to collect logs, no matter what they say. People need to use VPNs outside the US like NordVPN, ExpressVPN or any other outside the surveillance of US.

>We don't typically jump into Reddit or other forums

• I think at this point you might want to consider changing that policy. You are the CEO of a company that broke the trust of its users. In order to gain that trust back (if even possible), you'd have to communicate with your user-base. Some companies can get away with little communication, you don't have that luxury at the moment.

>IPVanish does not, has not, and will not log or store logs of our users as a StackPath company.

• Could you define your definition of logs here? It appears many companies have different interpretations of what is considered logging activity.

> I can't speak to what happened on someone else's watch

• Are you aware of what happened though? In terms of what server it happened on, and how it took place on a technical level? You inherited a company that was logging. Consequentially, in order for that logging to stop you would have to know where the problem lied, and put an end to it, no?

>I also happen to be a lawyer and I will spend my last breath protecting individuals' rights to privacy, especially our customers.

• If true, this is applaudable.

Final question: what changes have taken place since your acquisition that can ensure this won't happen again?

For those thinking about getting one, I woulf recommend NordVPN, it is pretty easy to set up, supports all platforms and is probably on sale or you can get a discount using any of YTs codes, I saved some bucks using some code.

Use a VPN. This'll hide your IP Address and location. There's free ones such as Betternet online But just to let you know, Adobe could care less about if individuals pirate their software. Adobe only cracks down on companies for piracy, as individuals pirating increases their market saturation.

You need a VPN. PIA (Private Internet Access) is stupid simple to setup and use, and even has IOS / Android apps too to protect your phone. It's like 5$ a month, but the piece of mind you'll have is priceless. They're also fast as fuck if you connect to a server close to where you live. I got over 100mbps in Seattle.

You should NEVER, EVER just download "content" on a naked, unprotected connection.

https://thepiratebay.org/search/4k/0/99/200

If you're on mobile try this link: https://m.thepiratebay.org/search/4k/0/200/1

Make sure your TV can play x265 and skip the upscaled BS. Anything ripped by "JoyBell2" is liked by many pirates.

Purchase a vpn. Mullvad, Ovpn, nordvpn, private internet acess or whatever you want.

Connect vpn

Hold your mouse over your wifi or ethernet icon to see the adapter name often something like "VPNNAME-TUN" or something like that.

Go to your torrent client > settings > often "Advanced" > choose network adapter to the one you looked up in the previus step.

You can now seed and download with vpn connection only.

If you read the notice that was sent, this is likely not a DNS leak. They detected DHT UDP traffic on port 4107.

This indicates to me that this has nothing to do either with some sort of traffic analysis, DNS leaks, or otherwise.

The most likely explanation, Occam's Razor-wise, is the VPN was not actually connected at the time the tracker connected.

Could have fired it up at some point by mistake for a minute or so or what have you. Or started it too early.

It is really important when using VPN software to always connect to a remote server that can report your source IP, hostname, and ideally geolocation to ensure that you are connected. I never trust little colored icons or status messages. What will convince me of a VPN connection, and I verify it every time I use it (which is not often):

• https://www.whatismyip.com/
• https://www.dnsleaktest.com/

The latter one makes sure you aren't looking up hostnames outside of the VPN tunnel.

On the VM I run my VPN on (using the bog-standard OpenVPN client), it can take as much as a minute after LXDE has booted before I start seeing the VPN address.

Thus it is also possible you connected before the VPN had finished creating its tunnel.

Never trust VPN client statuses. Always verify the connection.

The funny thing is that you care about the VPN companies collecting your data and yet you use uTorrent as a client, the irony.

Unfortunately you will need a VPN since your country cares what you download, ProtonVpn and Mullvad are two vpn's that will not sell your data.

If you already delete uTorrent you don't have to worry about if something is still seeding using your torrents, and do yourself a favor, never use this piece of garbage. called uTorrent again, use qBittorrent or Deluge.

You should stick to these 5:

>ExpressVPN – As part of an investigation into a crime in Turkey, Turkish authorities demanded user information from ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN denied the data request because they did not have any logs to provide, and they also did not fall under Turkey’s legal jurisdiction (based in the British Virgin Islands). As a final attempt, Turkish authorities then raided the datacenter and seized ExpressVPN’s Turkey server – but they still were not able to obtain any logs or customer data.

>Perfect Privacy – Authorities in Rotterdam, Netherlands were attempting to obtain customer data and seized one of Perfect Privacy’s servers. They were not able to obtain any information and customer data remained secure.

>NordVPN – In November 2018 NordVPN released an audit that successfully verified their “no logs” claims. The audit was carried out by a reputable “Big 4” accounting firm and confirmed NordVPN’s claims and practices.

>VyprVPN – In order to transition to a no logs VPN service, VyprVPN underwent a full audit and consultation from Leviathan Security Group. They have successfully transitioned from a VPN service that kept connection logs to a fully-compliant and verified no logs VPN service, which was independently audited in November 2018.

>Private Internet Access – PIA’s no logs claims have been verified in two separate court cases – one in 2016 and another in 2018.

They all either have been audited or proven in court to be "log-free".

It should probably be mentioned that it isn't a VPN's job to prevent you getting targeted ads. A VPN masks your IP, and traffic from your ISP - that's all it does, and all that it should do. You can still be targeted through various other means, including logins, cookies, user agent strings, browsing behaviours etc. It is up to you to deal with it, not the VPN provider. A VPN is a tool to help you with anonymity, but it's only part of what you need. A VPN provider cannot 'keep cookies' - they operate at completely different levels in the network stack.

I have PureVPN myself, and whilst I don't particularly think their service is great, I don't believe you should be making uninformed accusations.

https://www.amazon.com/Fairly-OddParents-Season-Tara-Strong/dp/B00514JKQA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544325900&sr=8-1&keywords=fairly+oddparents+season+3

Not eBay bootlegs or anything. "Official" DVD-Rs, because Nick/Paramount are too lazy to released pressed DVDs

GitHub hosts software. Specifically the source code. Source code is simply a compilation of instructions. You can download the source code and build it. Assuming the developer hasn't already published a prebuilt release. Collectively, this is called a repository (repo).

To download the source code, you typically use CLI software git. You clone the repo to your system and then follow the "build" instructions included in the relevant document file. This may involve setting up what's called "dependencies" that the software relies on to be built. You can also download the source directly from the website in a zip, but this is generally not advisable. Using git you have file revisions built in. An unzip and overwrite eliminates that. You can always pull the latest changes without ever having to go to GitHubs site.

It can feel absolutely overwhelming at first. A lot of people are deterred by GitHub and git in general. There's a whole lot more to this than what I've said here. If you interested and do want to learn, check these out:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started

https://git-scm.com/docs

I think that those are basically impossible to remove automatically, unless someone makes something like SponsorBlock but for pirated movie/series streaming or perhaps something like a database of common ad clips and a software that detects such clips in a video and removes them. But such software at least as far as I know don't exist unfortunately, although would be a dream.
P.S: Removing the ad watermarks on movies/series (Like a casino logo on the top-right of the video) automatically will probably never be possible, because it would be too complex and the only thing you could get from it is blank space instead of the watermark. The only useful thing you could prob get from this is automatic detection that the video source has built-in ads in the video.

Yeah, it's weird people are freaking out over this guy's past employment. When your last job was literally dismantling privacy and security it shows that you would be perfect for creating those systems because you know what workarounds to look for.

I don't see why this is a big issue considering ExpressVPN has made no attempt to hide this and flat out says "Yeah, that's why we hired him.".

ExpressVPN has always worked flawlessly in China, at least for me. I switched to Nord after travel was restricted, but I’ll definitely pay the premium for Express once China reopens.

Nord works great for P2P but it’s such a hassle with streaming services. Most of the time it gets blocked.

CEO Statement

We don't typically jump into Reddit or other forums but this topic is too important to me. I'm the CEO of StackPath and we acquired IPVanish in February, 2017 (more than a year after the lawsuit from 2016). With no exception IPVanish does not, has not, and will not log or store logs of our users as a StackPath company. Most important, StackPath will defend the privacy of our users regardless of who demands otherwise. I can't speak to what happened on someone else's watch but Technology is my life and I've spent my career helping customers build on and use the Internet on their terms. StackPath takes that even further—security and privacy is our core mission. I also happen to be a lawyer and I will spend my last breath protecting individuals' rights to privacy, especially our customers.

Comparing a Swiss email provider to a VPN is a bit unfair, since different laws are applicable. Unlike an email provider, a VPN like ProtonVPN cannot, under Swiss law, be forced to log IPs, so they're basically on the exact same level of trustworthiness as PIA used to be in the good ol' days.

Piratebay was sold after the raid in 2006, 3 years before the trial. So at the time they were charged they were the founders & not owners.

Their indictment was based on them actively sharing and running a tracker - before the tracker was removed & the site switched to magnets.

Nobody knows where the site is actually hosted - it was behind PRQ until the raid and the recent lawsuit against their Swedish VPN provider (to which their cloudflare information points to) also failed. - The new owners have joked that they are in North Korea :D

Security researcher John Mason compiled a list of 26 paid VPN's that claimed no logging and do actually log. He writes for an affliate site - but he's the guy that first wrote about Chrome extensions leaking your DNS.

PureVPN

HideMyAss

HotSpot Shield

VPN Unlimited

VyprVPN

Astrill

ZoogVPN

Buffered

TigerVPN

Boleh VPN

Anonymizer

IPinator

AnonVPN

FlyVPN

SunVPN

iPredator

HideIP VPN

VPN Gate

HolaVPN

Betternet

Ace VPN

Flow VPN

Freedom-IP

IronSocket

IPVanish has partnered with Pornhub to offer a free VPN service to get round the age verification requirements, Mindgeek, Pornhub's parent company also created AgeID in conjunction with the British Government

If you do decide to add a VPN part since it's needed for a lot of people, there's a docker container (probably multiple) called qbittorrentvpn that connects to popular ones such as ExpressVPN and even is setup so that it won't load if the VPN doesn't connect so it won't leak.

Easiest way would be using RSS. If you do a search for any Anime + preferred release group + resolution, nyaa.si creates a RSS feed just for this search and alerts you if a new search result is available.

So for example you search for [HorribleSubs] Boku no Hero Academia 1080p , it shows you all available episodes by HorribleSubs in 1080p. You can then then take the RSS feed of that particular search and put it into your preferred BitTorrent client, which will then auto downloads everything that will get added to the RSS feed.

They got bought out by Kape Technologies. They've been buying up VPN providers and this suggests that PIA is compromised now although PIA continues to deny it.

I moved to Mullvad after the news broke and I've been satisfied with it.

Bad links. LTSC is the best non bloated version and I recommend shutting any other junk off with these.

https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases/tag/2.2.2.2

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Private Internet Access w/internet connectivity kill switch enabled has worked like a charm for nearly a decade now. PIA does charge a minimal fee, but it's so worth it when compared to getting DMCA notices and the potential of being sued.

Ignore them or if they start chasing you down, play dumb.

Tell them that you don't know what happened or what you did.

Things like "what's BitTorrent" and "I don't have any downloading programs, I only use Spotify and YouTube" will probably work.

Next time, use a reliable VPN provider that allows P2P and No Logs. (any major one, NordVPN, PIA, ExpressVPN, etc)

This is really important and easy to do. I highly suggest doing it.

In case you are not aware how to enable it, here's quick step by step guide for Windows.

1. Go into Control Panel ---> Network and Sharing Center ---> Adapter Settings

2. You will most likely see two network adapters, you might have more that's ok. Figure out what is your VPN adapter and rename it to something that you can remember. Private Internet Access for example uses TAP adapter, so identifying what adapter vpn uses won't be hard.

3. Go into Qbittorrent settings ---> Advanced and select adapter that you renamed into Network Adapter box.

Google is always your friend, you can find many step by step guides with pictures. I suggest using this rather than relying on VPN killswitch only.

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/ it scours your PC for all save games then creates a single file you can move to your new windows install. Then reinstall the program, open the .gsm file in game save manager and bam, it restores all those saves that were hidden in appdata and elsewhere on your PC.

Use a real VPN next time. One that costs money and has a good reputation. Think about it. 5-10 dollars a month or this again. Also if this is the first time this happened and you play dumb and pretend you have no clue how it happened they'll let it slide. Your ISP likely doesn't care at all and they only have to do this because of the copyright holders.

Hotspot Shield is so bad you might as well not use a VPN. Think about it. It's free. How do they make money? If you look it up you'd find out that they work with ISPs and hand over IPs which is probably how you got caught assuming you set things up correctly. They keep logs of everything you do while using their VPN and what your real IP is. They violate your privacy. They track you and sell your data to third parties like advertisers. They've been reported to the FTC because of how shady and shitty their practices are. Their privacy policy is extremely hard to understand on purpose. To add insult to injury their servers are super slow. Do some research and find a better VPN. No one would ever recommend Hotspot Shield. Just suck it up and shell out the 60 dollars a year. Way less stress, right?

By the way everybody these days more or less is using a VPN , which routes all of your data through a third party data centre often in another country, so that the copyright police can't track you down. There's lots of different providers with different prices. Personally I used to recommend PIA (Private Internet Access) but they've become really sketchy recently. Hiring the guy behind the Mt. Gox bitcoin hack as their CTO, getting caught trying to slander their rivals etc.

NordVPN and ~~Tunnel Bear~~ are probably the two reliable biggies. Don't use a free VPN because they'll sell your "spare bandwidth" to bot nets, read all of your Internet traffic to "bring you more relevant ads" and or use your computer for bitcoin mining with the resultant increase in electric bills....

Both of these extensions are closed source and collects your private information, including your visited URLs. Also why Stands Fair Adblocker requires e-mail? And both of these websites looks fishy. So no thanks, I will keep my hands of these spywares.

uBlock Origin is the best adblocker.

I downloaded the github repository and mega file. In the repository/web folder I created a folder called games (can be called anything) and extracted the mega archive to it.

I then came up with a little script to add .html to the end of each files so I don't have to muck around with the web server config. https://hastebin.com/siciduwucu.bash

After I created a local webserver with python using python -m http.server 8080 to create a server at 127.0.0.1:8080

Am I doing something wrong using thepiratebay.org as my first choice? Is it full of malware or something? I don't know much about torrenting but have had no problems getting working torrents from this website most of the time

That's some motherfucking version done by some motherfucker benefitting from the good deeds of vanced to install some crap malware on your phone

Enjoy the official version: https://vancedapp.com/

Edit: googled puretuber just out of curiosity and it's DEFINITELY malware crap simply from first sight

Ovpn should be quite safe. They run a custom linux disto with the sole purpose of not storing logs at all. See this post for more info.

Took a quick peak. Looks like a lot of good info.

Did you know that Private Internet Access VPN was purchased by the same company that runs cyber ghost vpn. They are known to inject malware into their vpns. After the acquisition people started to dislike PIA.

Just linking to the best privacy char out there to get a vpn depending on your needs. However AirVpn, ExpressVpn, PIA, and Torguard are seen as the top four currently. A VPN cost less than a large cup of shitty designer coffee per month. Mine cost $36 USD per year.

Here's exactly what I do. You will need WiiBackupManager

I'll go throught the steps: (First format your usb thumb drive to "fat 32" insert it anytime after you download the game but before you open wii back up manager) 1. Download the game (I download mine to my download folder)
2. On your C: drive create a file "wbfs"
3. Put the game in the wbfs file on your C: drive
4. Open Wii Back up manager
5. Once it's open you will see some tabs: file, dvd, drive 1, drive 2, etc...
6. Click on drive 1, below where you clicked you will see a drop down tab that says 'inactive' change that tab to C: (your games from your wbfs folder should show up.
7. Drive 2 click the 'inactive' drop menu to whatever drive your usb thumb drive is, mine is E: yours could be different
8. Go back to drive 1 and you should see your games click on the boxes next to the game name you want to 'transfer', once you click transfer it will give you the option to pick drive 2 (your usb thumb drive)
9. Just wait while it transfers (depends on how big the file is but about 3-5 minutes per game)
10. Put your usb thumb drive in the back of the Wii, boot up home brew channel and you should be good to go.

I find it easier to follow along with youtube directions vs reading so if you just youtube wiibackup manager all the steps will be there to show you how to do it. It's really easy once you do it once.

EDIT: I also use Wii Flow for my loader on homebrew vs UBS Loader GX don't know if it makes a difference but Wii Flow works great for me.

Yes but in a different lawsuit. "Private Internet Access and TorGuard were recently added to previously filed lawsuits against Quadranet and LiquidVPN respectively."

you may have set your bar to low.

Vpn is about privacy, most Vpns just work so that you have no complaints but that isn't good enough. lookout for news, read your data.

I'd rather have a shitty no log vpn than a blazing fast one which may someday leak.

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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link they say. So make sure your links are focking MASSIVE.

also, yes Mullvad is great , for now

Private Internet Access. $40 a year, never have to worry about that nonsense ever again. To answer the question directly, yes, it is very effective. Use it & forget about being tracked, it can't happen.

Steps 2,3,4 are just overcomplicating things when there's a perfectly fine ISO available on TheEye, which is a recommended source on the piracy megathread. Checksum also is the same.

TPB is better than 1337x :)

And guys, if 1337x is blocked in your country or not opening then here are the Best Recommended VPN Services that can unblock 1337x or TPB or any torrent site instantly.

I am using NordVPN without any issues at all.

jesus man, malwarebytes protection is so easy to bypass

copy script from https://paste.ee/p/cIF4b

paste into http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php_mysql_online.php , press execute

on 100 fakes you will find 5-10 real one

Does anyone else get refused entry to the site when using a VPN?

I have to disable my VPN, open my torrent tabs, enable VPN, then magnet - otherwise it requires me to CAPTCHA but still denies me access. Using CyberGhost with Chrome - issues with PC and mobile.

I don't know your VPN provider but I'm using Private Internet Access (PIA) and here is my configuration:

• In your VPN client, enable DNS/IPv6 Leak Protection (privacy)

• In your VPN client, enable VPN Kill Swith or other similar option (privacy)

• In your browser, disable RTCPeerConnection (privacy)

• In your VPN client, enable Port Forwarding (performance)

• In your Bittorent client, disable UPnP and NAT-PMP and enter the port provided by your VPN service (performance)

You can check if everything is fine with .

Here's my list:
uBlock Origin
Cookie AutoDelete
HTTPS Everywhere
Decentraleyes
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
Privacy Badger
Privacy Possum
CyberGhost VPN Free Proxy
The Pirate Bay Plus

Universal bypass recommends using kiwi browser, which you can then install UB on. That's what they list for easy Android compatibility anyway.

I've never done this, so I dunno how well it'll go.

Not to steal PIA's thunder but Torguard is currently having a promotion for their VPN service ($30 a year or $15 semi-annually). PIA also has a promotion for $60 for two years. If you don't want to get locked in for such a long term/pay $60 upfront then Torguard may be a better option for you. The only criticism I've heard directed at either service is that they are based in the US. Speed-wise they similar though (Torguard was better for me though YMMV).

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

There you go. They will just quit the free service the moment they decide you need to. If you get enough traffic I give a good bet that the sales department starts mailing you.

CouchPotato

Basically a tool to automatically download a movie as soon as it is released in your preferred version. Originally it only supported Usenet, but they have implemented the use of Torrents.

NordVPN uses Tesonet for payment services in the US. This all came out over a month ago. Similar claims were made about ProtonVPN. The Proton folks were pretty open in discussing their relationship with Tesonet.

> pay a fee and get a reputable vpn that doesnt log traffic.

While I agree, free is always too good to be true when it comes to VPNs, TF does not.

Article

>The VPN connection is provided by the Canadian VPN service SurfEasy, which like many other VPNs keeps no logs. SurfEasy was acquired by Opera last year and VP of Marketing Steve Kelly tells TorrentFreak that privacy and censorship were the main reasons to add the free VPN to Opera.

Their website claims they do not log:

>No one should be watching what you do online—not even us

>That’s why SurfEasy is a no-log network, meaning we don’t keep a record of any information about you, your online activity or your download history on our servers.

Just stay away from VPN's based in the US and you should be good. That includes PIA. Yeah I know they are good but being US based makes it really questionable if they are trustworthy. NordVPN or ExpressVPN are way better.

Of course but the fact is, PureVPN advertise their products like a white ship and says they don't keep logs, etc...

"Why PureVPN ? PureVPN operates a self-managed VPN network that currently stands at 750+ Servers in 141 Countries. But is this enough to ensure complete security? That's why PureVPN has launched advanced features to add proactive, preventive and complete security. There are no third-parties involved and NO logs of your activities."

In fact we can't trust them... That's a big problem if they are lying, who else can you trust ?

I use a cut down offering of IPVanish that I get as part of another account

This is the gold standard of research tools. Most VPN comparison sites are "sponsored" exercises in money making and not to be trusted.

The most commonly recommended VPN here is Private Internet Access. The only negative posts I see here about it say that the killswitch failed. So don't use the killswitch. Get qBit and bind it to the VPN connection

/r/VPN is a good read, but never ask there for recommendations cos the mods will delete your post

A personal recommendation of mine is to use a provider that supports OpenVPN and then simply use the config files of your VPN provider. PIA supports this.

Having set up a VPN go to at least 3 leak test sites looking for WebRTC or DNS leaks

It's a locally hosted DNS. It provides DNS level ad blocking across your entire network, and on-the-go if using a VPN. It comes with some blacklists, but you can load more to block most ads.

https://pi-hole.net/

I use youtube-dl, the GUI version.

Lets me select multiple videos and queue them up for download, either as just audio or the full video in a multitude of filetypes.

My only gripe with it is that you can't download audio as .flac, aside from that it's perfect. In case you want to try it remember to check for updates inside the program.

ProtonMail did that, ProtonVPN is registered as a separate Company and unlike ProtonMail, they cant be forced to give out user data by law because jurisdictions for VPNs is not the same as for mail providers.

Worth noting is that this happened before they were bought by the Israeli company so their no log claims need to be tested again for this to be valid.

It seems like VPN service [ie. ProtonVPN] under Swiss law can't be forced to collect information.

it is pretty common in the /r/datahoarder and /r/homelab subs to take out the hard drive of external hard drive enclosures such as this one, as external hard drives are typically much cheaper (for some reason) than just the hard drive that is typically $50 all the way up to $100 dollars more expensive. these are typically bought in bulk whenever they go on sale.

the cost per terabyte is about $15 to $17 dollars right now for spinning disks i.e non-SSD.

Yeah. You shouldn't be using uTorrent anymore. Like really. Don't. - full of shitty ads, bundled crapware and also considering payments. why should u bother.

If you want closest alternative to it, go qBittorent - download here to make it simple

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You can see the server stats here: https://the-eye.eu/tools/

vpn always keep logs and can't be trusted. A VPN will do more harm than good to your privacy. Before we dig deeper into this, we need to establish a baseline: When anonymity is involved, no VPN can be trusted.

First, it’s a black box and your security is based on trust. We all know how that works out. Two great articles to give you full context: When law enforcement knocks on a VPN’s door which cite a LulzSec member case, and VPNs are lying about logs.

Second, there are also cases where the service is trustworthy but simply not on par with the technical requirement thus, leaking your information.

FDM is a program that you can use to queue and schedule downloads. It supports both regular HTTP/FTP downloads and torrents. Everybody only uses it for regular downloads though and uses a dedicated torrent client for torrents.