Most of the Bit-Torrent users always look forward to hide their identities from the external world. To meet the demand here we are presenting a brief overview of 5 mostly commonly used privacy services.
With increase of Bit torrent users who wish to hide their identity from outside world, the privacy services have also seen a rapid growth in customers recently.
The services, which were discussed below post, range from totally free of several dollars a month. The free services here will be normally slower than other restrictions, where the paid ones give the user some speeds.
Here below mentioned are some Ways to download torrents anonymously
Torrent Privacy
This is one more proxy service for Bit Torrent users and this is also similar to BT Guard. It has modified uTorrent client which has necessary settings in it. The main drawback for Torrent Privacy is it is only limited to Windows Platforms users.
Seed Box
A seed box gives high speed server and this is exclusively used for torrent transfers. The seed box users normally have high rate of download speeds while the IP addresses which will not be shared with other people. Once after finishing the download the users can easily download these files to the PC using high-speed http connection.
ANOMOS
This is pseudonymous, encrypted and multi peer to peer file distribution protocol and this is mainly based on tracker/ peer concept of Bit Torrent and frankly to say that it has onion routing anonymization layer which consists of additional advantage of end to end encryption.
Anomos is free and is multi platform solutions for Bit Torrent users to hide IP addresses. The main drawback is Anomos is not completely compatible with the regular torrent files as it uses its own format. One more drawback is download speeds are lower than the normal Bit Torrent transfers.
VPN
Most of the Bit-Torrent users already accepted the fact that VPN is very good way to approach and it give privacy to the users while using Bit Torrent. Using VPN route all the traffic through the servers and also hide the users IP address from the public. Some VPNs are also available free of cost but these are somewhat slower and are not suited for the users who use Bit torrent frequently.
VPN is not only limited to Bit Torrent traffic, these also conceal the sources of all the traffic on the connections.
BT Guard, Tor-guard and Private Internet access are popular uses among Bit Torrent users, but if you search in Google you can find dozens more.
BT Guard
Bt guard is Proxy service and this hides the IP addresses of the users from others. BT Guard service works on Windows, Mac, Linux and BT Guard the name itself is setup specifically with Bit Torrent users in mind. To work with BT Guard Bit Torrent users can also configure its own client. BT Guard has encryption tunnel software especially for those who need real security.
BT Guard can be operated by the friends of Torrent Freak which is its main drawback.
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