Are VPNs still useful for privacy when torrenting? (feddit.de)

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Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn't.

Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I don't get the port forwarding issue. If I'm torrenting something on port 78660 but my only outgoing ports visible to others is port 8081, then couldn't I just tell my torrent software to use port 8081?

I don't really understand how torrenting is impacted by this, unless all torrent clients use a baked in port number (which from what I've seen over the last few decades, all torrent clients allow you to change the outgoing port)

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