Hello, how can I configure qBittorent to use SOCKS5 proxy? Is it free? I’m not using a VPN.
OS: Windows 10
VPN: N/A
qBittorrent version: v4.4.1 (64-bit)
Hol’ on a minute there boyo…
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Let’s go back to begining…
- Why do you want a “proxy”?
- “Is it free” I don’t understand a question… Is a feature of a free program is free?
- qbit 4.4.x has issues on windows, i would suggest you roll back to 4.3.9
This is explained by many people you shouldn’t use SOCKS5 or other proxies when downloading torrent. I strictly recommend using VPN when downloading torrent
- Open qBittorrent.
- Navigate to the application preferences by clicking Tools > Options. Alternatively, press Alt + O on your keyboard.
- Select Connection.
- Locate the Proxy server section and fill in the server of your choice from here: https://proxyscrape.com/free-proxy-list
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+can+I+configure+qBittorent+to+use+SOCKS5+proxy%3F
Just follow the instructions
- To hide my IP from other peers when torrenting.
- I’m not sure if I need a VPN to be able to use SOCKS5 proxy on qBittorrent, I found this guide on google but it requires me to subscribe to their VPN service. (Forgot to link the guide - https://support.ipvanish.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013129353-SOCKS5-Proxy-Setup-for-qBittorrent-for-Windows)
- Ok, I’ll roll back to 4.3.9
At the end of the day, the inteded way of using qbitorrent is with proxy, vpns is on your whole machine level, qbitorrent will continue to download if your vpn goes and switch to your connection, (so you need to setup a kill switch but is more hassle), proxy is configured by application,
Wow…+high+effort+comment
People get Reddit threads like this as Google search results, dumbass.
- Well you can use a proxy server or a VPN for that, both have positives and negatives. A decent service which doesn’t really impact your speeds is not free
- Of course a paid guide ends with that
- Cool
If you want encription, so that your ISP won’t see your traffic, I would suggest a VPN which catches all your network traffic…
You need to find a “torrent friendly” VPN… usually the most popular ones won’t ask what you do with their service, you are paying for it.
ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, NordVPN comes in first on google
They usually create a virtual network card to catch your traffic… in qbit at the advanced options you can force your client to use that “network interface”
why? (did you you find out ?)
what’s hilarious is that is exactly what happened with me and hence why I’m here in this old random thread.
Unlike OP, I do already have a vpn which has a socks5 service. Generally just looking for specific options that should be enabled/disabled in qbittorent like DHT, local peers, if I should use both or just one protocol, etc etc. (Guess i’ll keep searching, lol)
Guessing you’re not in the USA, but I don’t know if any ISP that cares if you torrent so using encryption to hide it isn’t really relevant.
The copyright holder might care, and they’ll complain to the ISP if it’s their intellectual property, but otherwise the isp could care less.
I just want a free socks5 proxy server
1 year later… xD
No, I am not from the US
There are some who cares, actively blocks and pursues torrenting
In germany and france they need to cover themselves by warning you and sometimes the authorities, since copyright laws are fashioned that way that the ISPs somewhat liable as facilitators in pirating
There are some free services that offer proxy servers, but those would seriously throttle your speeds
socks5 is a protocoll,
proxy server is a machine somewhere which acts as a relay station between you and the internet, someone has to buy that machine, upkeep it… That costs money
Not to mention you don’t know what they are logging and who do they sell your data to…
Google: “free socks5 proxy list”
Not internet providers in the USA anyway. They have no reason to. Doesn’t work that way here.
Proxies slows down only a little. Free proxies socks5 tend to be pretty bad which is why it is slow.
Maybe. I live in a country where is not illegal to torrent, unless you sell the torrented conted.
However when the authorites are contacted, they are still looking for bootleg VHS tapes and DVD discs, they don’t have any idea what torrenting is.
On the other hand there is an extra tax on digital storage which goes to copyright holders almost equally
Are you sure? It’s illegal to torrent Linux for example? Why?
It’s ironic that even though the majority of content comes from the USA that our laws are much more relaxed. But just so you know in the future that’s why Americans don’t care about encryption.