I downloaded a large torrent overnight. Surfshark app was on. The day after, I got a warning from my ISP. So I contacted Surfshark and the rep said it’s most likely due to it leaking.
I’m using uTorrent on my Android phone. The app is very useful since I csnt configure my router due to work reasons (I work from home).
Any suggestions what to do? The rep wasn’t really helpful apart from telling me the app clashes when I use torrent apps.
Search the sub for DMCA letter. You’ll see dozens of posts. This question gets asked every day.
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If you’re not using qBittorrent get it.
Bind qBittorrent to your VPN. This stops all torrent traffic if your VPN drops it’s connection or you forgot to connect. It’s more reliable than a Kill Switch.
In qBittorrent, go to Settings > Advanced > Network interface and select your VPN interface.
If you don’t know which is your VPN, disconnect it and see which interface disappears.
This literally just happened to me as well last night. I woke up this morning to two separate notices from my ISP about torrents I was downloading last night while Surfshark was on. I had kill switch enabled and qBittorent set to only download on the specific Surfshark network interface. I will be moving to Mullvad later today.
My personal suggestion is to not use surfshark anymore, I have to say at the beginning it was pretty ok, time going on it became really uncomfortable, login issue, on the browser all day long problems connecting to a server, a lot of errors ecc. I’m using mulvad and personally I would try it out. Just my opinion✌️
Switch to BiglyBT and bind.
Surfshark is bad they were good around 2021 but rapidly went worse and worse since then before 2022 I would have rated them 8/10 now maybe 3/10 on top their warrant canary wasn’t updated since August maybe meaning they aren’t safe anymore.
And don’t torrent via android.
Even if you exclude the vpn from energy saving measures it will leak and stop working for a few seconds at some point.
I use libre torrent with mullvad not problems. Surfshark is really not good mainly because of the bugs, logins, dcs and no port forwarding. And to prevent leaks you should use the ‘always on vpn’ with the ‘native VPN killswitch’ so that android blocks anything that is not going through the VPN tunnel. The native killswitch is the most important part with android torrenting!
Thanks! I judt downloaded the app on my desktop and followed your instructions.
Check the posts from yesterday. Someone posted that they were using Mullvas and got a notice. Could be a binding issue …
I’m locked in for 2 years. Will move after the term is up.
I’m being helped by one of their reps right now. Setting up DNS. Seems to be working better.
What is binding? I just got Mullvad. I don’t think it was in the instructions. I use uTorrent - old faithful.
I’ve setup a DNS on my laptop with the help of Surfshark support. We tested it and it goes to a random ISP depending on the country selected. Won’t be using android phone for torrenting anymore. Thanks for your help. Once my term is up with Surfshark I’ll go to another VPN service.
Read the pinned post.
BiglyBT for android, qBittorrent for everything else. If you got Mullvad then check also the guide for port-forwarding.
Either way uTorrent is a big no.
configuring the torrent client to only use mullvad as the network interface.
not sure but probably also a setting in utorrent somewhere. its under advanced in qbt
Mind you, use qbittorrent, and bind your vpn cause surfshark is absolutely unreliable with their killswitch and might randomly log you out and disable killswitch leaving you without protection.
Also don’t forget surfshark logs 15 min and their warrant canary isn’t updated for months this could mean that authority’s have direct access to surfshark atm.