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How To Download Torrent File In Blocked Proxy
We wrote an an entire article on reasons to anonymize your torrents but the short answer is:
If you don't use uTorrent anonymously, you don't know who's monitoring your downloads and what they're doing with that information. Unless you take steps to protect yourself, your true IP address is available for anyone to see on uTorrent.
You may not realize it, but you can pull up a list of all peers you're connected to in a given bittorrent swarm and see the full IP addresses for each and every peer. For those that aren't familiar with the term, an IP address is a unique series numbers that is assigned to you by your internet service provider. An IP address can be used to identify a unique computer, device or connection.
To see your current IP address, go to Check your IP at IPVanish.com(it's totally free and takes 5 seconds. Your IP address will be in the upper left corner). Yikes! The truth is you are much less anonymous online than you probably realize.
If you don't use uTorrent anonymously, you don't know who's monitoring your downloads and what they're doing with that information. Unless you take steps to protect yourself, your true IP address is available for anyone to see on uTorrent.
You may not realize it, but you can pull up a list of all peers you're connected to in a given bittorrent swarm and see the full IP addresses for each and every peer. For those that aren't familiar with the term, an IP address is a unique series numbers that is assigned to you by your internet service provider. An IP address can be used to identify a unique computer, device or connection.
To see your current IP address, go to Check your IP at IPVanish.com(it's totally free and takes 5 seconds. Your IP address will be in the upper left corner). Yikes! The truth is you are much less anonymous online than you probably realize.
Pirate Bay
If you are going to download torrents through any of the above-mentioned Yify proxy sites, then it is better that you use a virtual private network to get past online restrictions. Your feedback is important to us. While researching for our article about what happens when you install crapware from a really lousy download site, we noticed that some of the crapware and spyware will actually try to install a proxy server to spy on you.