Okay cool, if I have my torrent service running with my vpn, also having my vpn with kill switch, then there’s little to no chance Ill get caught pirating (I say this because I was caught pirating by spectrum previously)
But some people run their download client like Qbittorrent in a docker container. Then using this method will not work. If that is the case you need a VPN container as well and let the VPN container do the work for you. If there is no connection, your VPN container will not work and so do your Qbittorrent container. Some switches and routers give you the ability to configure a VPN client. I have a travel router and everything connected to that router uses the built-in VPN client for outbound connections.
This is a clue. It’s not even problem since they are not separate services, look you have to keep protonmail to use their vpn. Which speaks for itself. In this case they shared recovery apple email. So just just take closer look and you don’t have to paranoid. With WS or Mullvad you don’t have to use email, or at least temp one but with proton you must use their email or delete VPN account. Isn’t that confusing?
Oh shit, proton comin in with the leg sweep
is there anyway to bind your torrent on mobile?
vpn running is not the same as binding.
There is a reason why everyone here will tell you to bind your vpn to your client.
Cool…. but I think you missed the “not tech-savvy” bit 
I have no clue what you’re even trying to say but it looks like your account is filled with just hating on Proton. But they are separate services, no one is forcing you to use Proton Mail. If you want to use it, no one is forcing you to use a recovery email. Look I get it, you hate Proton for some reason, but isn’t it tiring going on every thread to express your hate for them? If you’re truly this paranoid, you can use tor browser and never sign up for any services. Or even not use the Internet entirely.
I recently switched to NordVPN and I can do it on my phone setting block connections without VPN (I have BitTorrent on Android)
I did bind my vpn to my torrent after reading replies
lol, i got you
Excuses English is not my first language.
No it’s not about I hate proton. But main problem is that you have to keep their email to use vpn, and in their most cases they do comply with LE. So beside recovery email they keep not straight in vpn but email your IP and payment, every single time and first ever.
For now I’ve got protonvpn and I must keep their email, or delete vpn, but I use it only for streaming. Believe me proton is not trustworthy.
I don’t mind about few dollars I have paid. I do have few more commercial vpns, and Windscribe is the best.
Just why to pay proton this price and still share your data ?
Did you understood mate rn? They can seem and try to oparte as different services. But once with proton - once with police.
Edit We have been awarded €2 million from the EU to further develop the Proton ecosystem | Proton.
So proton even supports CSAM as funded by EU.
If you still don’t understand what rat is a proton I can explain espanol
Sail safe, fellow pirate
Once you’ve bound your vpn, you’re good to go.
btw, your kill switch (on or off) is unreliable.
Cool, btw since I previously got caught torrenting recently Is whatever system their using to detect this shit gonna flag me as at risk of violating again or…
If you follow the advice that was given to you on this subject you will never get caught unless … 1. the name you use here is your real name 2. your VPN provider is keeping logs. Whatever VPN service you are using there must never be any traceable connection to your real IP address.
The “system” that the copyright owners use, or their legal representatives (aka henchmen), is actually quite simple.
When you torrent stuff, you download, and simultaneously upload (that’s how torrenting works).
And when you upload, you also broadcast your IP address. The “system” collects those IP addresses, then goes through them to find individual identifiable ones, throwing any from a vpn away. Then contacts your ISP, and asks for your name and address. Then sues you.
If you rely on a kill switch rather than binding your vpn, and your kill switch fails for half a second, you broadcast your real IP address. And legally speaking, half a second of uploading / sharing is still sharing, which is illegal in many countries.