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Unfortunately that doesn’t fix the real reason most people use VPNs, which is torrenting. Nobody should be using NordVPN to hide from a nation state, but for to
by selectodude 4y ago
Unfortunately that doesn’t fix the real reason most people use VPNs, which is torrenting. Nobody should be using NordVPN to hide from a nation state, but for torrenting they add one level of obfuscation.
- nfbyte 4y agoI specifically mentioned torrenting, please re-read. There is no reason to have all the network I/O of your computer go through an extra hop just for one application (e.g. a torrent client) when that application can be configured to use a proxy instead. It increases the network latency, complexity and attack surface of your system.
- barbacoa 4y agoIf the main use case is torrents, I think the reason why the method you mention isn't commonly used is that it is complicated to understand/set up and hard to verify. I've seen more advanced users encapsulate everything in a VM so that non-VPN traffic can be blocked globally by the OS.