I know torrenting over Tor is bad, because it steals bandwidth from those who really need it. But if I had qBittorrent (binded to Mullvad) running in the background and then started running Tor Browser, would that negatively affect the network?
I know torrenting over Tor is bad, because it steals bandwidth from those who really need it. But if I had qBittorrent (binded to Mullvad) running in the background and then started running Tor Browser, would that negatively affect the network?
Just commenting to agree with you. I see way too many “OpSec bros” on Lemmy try to say that using a VPN with Tor is a good idea
I’m one of those opsec bros. I tunnel all of my traffic through a VPN, that I can pay with anonymously. That means my local ISP does not get direct view into the traffic I’m creating.
When I browse tor, it is on top of that always on VPN. It is sufficient for my threat model, I have thought about it, and I am happy with that trade-off.
In my circumstances my local ISP, is less trustworthy than mullvad. My local ISP is required by law to keep a record of all traffic flowing through it, so I lose nothing by using my VPN. In fact my VPN is strictly better, because they say they don’t log all the traffic… And even if they do, it just falls back to the same level of crappiness that my ISP has.