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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)
  1. It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
  2. Tor is a TCP only network.
  3. While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
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[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unlike Tor, which is built around accessing the clearnet anonymously, I2P is primarily designed around keeping traffic in the darknet. When you join I2P, you route traffic for other nodes but only within the I2P network, it will never leave through your clearnet address.

The equivalent of Tor's exit nodes are called "outproxies", but they aren't often used, there aren't very many of them, and you have to specifically set them up manually as it isn't the default behavior like it is for Tor.

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