From de297019e92ca94b1ec42ad038a665f7a99e1f1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francisco Pombal Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:49:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add warning about the scope and purpose of anonymous mode --- Anonymous-Mode.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Anonymous-Mode.md b/Anonymous-Mode.md index 838a28c..935ebff 100644 --- a/Anonymous-Mode.md +++ b/Anonymous-Mode.md @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +**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).** + 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. If you're using VPN, proxy or I2P, you probably want to enable Anonymous Mode.