Nuxleio
joined 2 days ago
So the solution is to what... ? Raw dog it?
- mutually assured destruction: if a VPN starts leaking network activity it's suicide for their business model
- distribution of concerns: VPN services as a rule don't give a shit about your torrent traffic the way a copyright holder might care about your IP
If you're out here creampie-ing the whole internet you don't have either of those barriers but you still carry all of that risk.
Even condoms very rarely break that doesn't make them in general useless. Perfection is the enemy of progress.
Perhaps? It works just fine for me but I'm a bit of a filthy casual who doesn't torrent all that much
You need to pay for a VPN. It's like a condom for the internet. Frankly, stop trying to avoid something that you should already be using.
Mullvad is a good start. Go purchase it.
When people colloquially say "you cannot prove a negative" they are usually referring to the fact that absence of evidence can not be used to deduce non-existence of some phenomena ("a negative"), whereas the factual discovery of a phenomena can be used to deduce that the phenomena exists ("a positive").
They are therefore not referring to formal negation but rather making a point about deductive vs. inductive reasoning and the asymmetry of these two related questions (existence vs. nonexistence).
There is a bit of nuance to add here in that practically speaking you can't really "discover a fact" by direct observation. But again this is a colloquialism as most laypeople will accept what is directly observable under their noses as factual rather than a noisy data point of one.