From 17d021f07cd8432e369c4b09b6b76ffb0e7c780f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: An0n <79678786+an0n666@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:23:02 +0600 Subject: [PATCH] updated info according to latest libtorrent behaviour --- Anonymous-Mode.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Anonymous-Mode.md b/Anonymous-Mode.md index fbff703..660957e 100644 --- a/Anonymous-Mode.md +++ b/Anonymous-Mode.md @@ -1,9 +1,16 @@ -**WARNING: anonymous mode doesn't provide strong privacy guarantees on its own. If you are concerned about legal authorities and copyright trouble, for example, consider using a VPN instead (or in addition to it). Anonymous mode is only meant to further prevent your BitTorrent traffic from being associated to you, even when using other privacy enhancing mechanisms (such as a VPN service), by limiting the scope of the information broadcasted by the client (such as the fingerprint in the peer-ID).** +**WARNING: anonymous mode doesn't provide strong privacy guarantees on its own. If you are concerned about legal authorities and copyright trouble, for example, consider using a VPN instead (or in addition to it). Anonymous mode is only meant to further prevent your BitTorrent traffic from being associated to you, even when using other privacy enhancing mechanisms (such as a VPN service), by limiting the scope of the information broadcasted by the client (such as the fingerprint in the user-agent).** -When enabled, qBittorrent will take certain measures to try to mask its identity. The exact functionality of Anonymous Mode depends on the version of qBittorrent (specifically, libtorrent-rasterbar) being used. +When enabled, qBittorrent will take certain measures to try to mask its identity. The exact functionality of Anonymous Mode depends on the version of libtorrent-rasterbar being used and whether the torrent is private or not. If you're using VPN, proxy or I2P, you probably want to enable Anonymous Mode. +## qBittorrent 4.4.x with libtorrent 2.0.6+ + +* A generic user-agent will be used for trackers (except for private torrents). +* Your local IPv4 and IPv6 addresses won't be sent as query string parameters to private trackers(requires private torrent). So a tracker will not get your IPv6 address from IPv4 announce and vice versa. The tracker will only see the IP address that you are announcing from. +* If `IP address reported to tracker` is configured, it will not be sent to trackers. +* The client version will not be sent to peers in the extension handshake. + ## qBittorrent v3.3.0+ * The peer-ID will no longer include the client's fingerprint