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VPN for usenet not needed? #79

Open vleango opened 1 year ago

vleango commented 1 year ago

Hello, question about NZBGet.

I see in the stack that Deluge is interfacing with a VPN service for torrents, but why isn't NZBGet also interfacing with a VPN service?

Sorry must be a dumb question, but curious.

MrSmits commented 1 year ago

With torrents everyone can see who is downloading or uploading for a given torrent. These are visible in your torrent client as peers. Institutions like Brein use this to log ip addresses, and use that go go to your ISP to get your information and potentially come after you. A VPN service hides your real IP so that those institutions don't know where to go for your personal information.

For NZB... Usually the usenet traffic is already encrypted, and you only have a connection to your usenet provider's servers. If you have a good usenet provider they won't keep logs. So nothing for institutions like Brein to get from there. You could use a VPN as additional layer of privacy for this, but is not as necessary as it is for torrents