@chuchkyschild said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@scudmissile said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@scudmissile said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@chuchkyschild

I still get the message box appearing if I want to open a torrent with Torch. It only gives a yes or no option so you're stuck with Torch......
BUT I now have found a registry setting to delete.
Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RegisteredApplications and delete Torch.

Now when clicking on a torrent link it asks if you wish to opoen it with qBittorrent ( in my case) or probably whatever you put in the previous registry setting for you own default.

Ah ha.....
Now if you completely delete your torrent programme, settings and all then reinstall it, it sets itself as the default torrent programme.
Sorted at last.

not true. tried that. only opera and chrome have this behavior. firefox set it under applications and forget it.

Ah, Opera and Chrome are what I use. I also have Torch which is the cause of the problem anyway. However on using Torch to download a torrent from the likes of pirate.trade they open in my qBittorrent so effectively leaving torch out of the loop.

I am now sussing things out more from the things I picked up. I installed the Browsec onto Torch and it works fine. Now if I then leave Torch as my default torrent manager the whole shebang is under the VPN to anonymise the activity.

So it gets the result I want but via a different route.

@scudmissile said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@chuchkyschild

I still get the message box appearing if I want to open a torrent with Torch. It only gives a yes or no option so you're stuck with Torch......
BUT I now have found a registry setting to delete.
Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RegisteredApplications and delete Torch.

Now when clicking on a torrent link it asks if you wish to opoen it with qBittorrent ( in my case) or probably whatever you put in the previous registry setting for you own default.

Ah ha.....
Now if you completely delete your torrent programme, settings and all then reinstall it, it sets itself as the default torrent programme.
Sorted at last.

@chuchkyschild

I still get the message box appearing if I want to open a torrent with Torch. It only gives a yes or no option so you're stuck with Torch......
BUT I now have found a registry setting to delete.
Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RegisteredApplications and delete Torch.

Now when clicking on a torrent link it asks if you wish to opoen it with qBittorrent ( in my case) or probably whatever you put in the previous registry setting for you own default.

@chuchkyschild said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@scudmissile said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

@chuchkyschild said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

browsec vpn

Thanks for that.
Have just added it to all my browsers. Even Torch.
By the way, I love Torch but hate the way it hijacks all the magnet torrent downloads to default on installing it.

I finally figured it out last week. You have to go into your registry and to
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\shell\open\command
Change the command to the location of the torrent handler. In my case it's "C\Program Files\qBittorrent.exe" "%1"

does that work for all browsers? be nice not to have to click when i click a magnet link. glad you like browsec.

I guess that the registry controls what opens with what so it'll be the default for any browser/torrent handler.

I love Opera for doing many things but Torch is great for just downloading most anything from websites without any faffing around. It even grabs Youtube video

@leocg
That's what I was wondering only last week. The browser VPN is only that, ie applicable to the browser alone. Whatever torrent handler is used may well have no VPN capability built in so the traffic isn't invisible to anyone who has access to the torrent handler's data.

So, let's say that a download is initiated through the VPN protected browser and is running on say, UTorrent, then the browser is closed the download is still ongoing. No VPN built into any torrent handler as far as I can see, unless it's a paid for one. Nor am I aware of any procedure to prevent uploading as a torrent sharer whilst downloading is ongoing.

@chuchkyschild said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

browsec vpn

Thanks for that.
Have just added it to all my browsers. Even Torch.
By the way, I love Torch but hate the way it hijacks all the magnet torrent downloads to default on installing it.

I finally figured it out last week. You have to go into your registry and to
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\shell\open\command
Change the command to the location of the torrent handler. In my case it's "C\Program Files\qBittorrent.exe" "%1"

@leocg
Sure was. I have looked at Opera's history and history shows the date that the ISP was told about the download.

Also history for other browsers shows no trace, and they would be blocked from a pirate site anyway as they don't have VPN's on them

It's alleged that someone in my household has gone to a sharing site and got a copy of Wonder Woman. I guess it's the film-maker who have complained.

Any idea as to why this supposed download failed to provide the necessary anonymity?
By the way, my computer has the VPN activated most of time, and cannot even access a pirate site directly without VPN

I got an email yesterday from my ISP. They had received info about a download having taken place (sharing warning) and have put me on a warning about it.

Being in the UK this generally means not a lot unless you are very unlucky, however I'm not able to understand why a download could be monitored when the VPN feature was enabled.

It's alleged that someone in my household has gone to a sharing site and got a copy of Wonder Woman. I guess it's the film-maker who have complained.

Any idea as to why this supposed download failed to provide the necessary anonymity?
By the way, my computer has the VPN activated most of time, and cannot even access a pirate site directly without VPN