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Be ware of using VPN if you want spanish content and wanna join a private tracker; all spanish private tracker ban the use of VPNs
My advice is to check if your ISP is blocking you from access to the sites you plan to use and pick one that doesn’t. If you plan to use torrent check if your ISP is outside CG-NAT (or let’s you leave it) to enable port forwarding
If your country doesn’t care about piracy do not complicate your life further till they care, just stay up to date. As for measures I always use independantly of context, I just recommend using
What's the rationale for that?
No idea for their specific case, but usually because VPNs makes it easier to circumvent bans as far as I am aware that is the main reason.
Not like it helps much tough as most people have dynamic IPs anyway... Any IP you have a suspicious of being of a banned person could just be of another ISP customer... Or the banned guy could have now another ip... so a user could circumvent a ban without a VPN anyway. That's I guess why most Trackers stopped caring about the VPN.
Another reason could be to avoid crawling the content... That again would be related with banning the user anyway and nowadays with Jackett and company that is either expected or there is an API for it.
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I've been pirating behind a cgnat for years. I get slightly fewer peers when I'm seeding (not that i seed all that much with my 8mbps upload), but apart from that there are no issues.