I'm brand new to torrenting and was looking to pirate some audiobooks off AudiobookBay. I followed the Wispy Docs Torrent Client Guide on VPN Binding Mullvad VPN with qBittorrent. (I know Mullvad isn't ideal but I want to use up my pre-existing subscription.)

My concern is that in Mullvad's BitTorrent guide (no longer maintained) they suggest the following additional changes:

Enable anonymous mode.
Disable DHT
Disable PeX
Disable Local peer discovery
Select TCP as Peer connection protocol

I tried searching on Reddit if I should follow any of these settings changes but people were very unclear. Some said they're outdated because "private trackers yada yada" (I'm new so am unfamiliar with the reasoning) but I'm not sure if that applies to my situation.

I already tested with torrent IP checkers and the binding seems to have worked. What else (if anything) should I be doing?

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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You will be unable to download most things without DHT these days. If you use transmission, you can explicitly bind it to the local IP within your VPN, so it literally cannot leak info onto another network.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

This function exists in qbittorrent too.