So while everyone is telling you what to use. Let me tell you about how to behave as a pirate, least suggestively, not strictly. You need to not be a blip on the radar. Well how's that? You don't download gigs and gigs of data in a single day, you have to be a little more spread than that. Because even if you're safe under VPN and everything, if an ISP thinks you're being suspicious at any degree, they're gonna look into it.

I make sure I don't download more than I can chew and since I'm on a data cap of 350GB a month, it helps me enforce this. I've been at it for well over 25+ years so by this point, I've about acquired a lot of what I wanted so I'm in a little of my winding down period.

Try not to listen to the pirates that just boast about themselves and their habits, they're doing things you don't know about and are probably above your skill since obviously you claim to be very new at this.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've been pirating for decades and never gave af how much I download in a day. Several hundred gigs on a weekend isn't unusual. Never got an ISP letter or had any issues, because I use private trackers.

[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@OP - These are the people I'm talking about.

Thanks for being a demonstrating example.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 14 hours ago

To be clear, I'm implying that you don't know what you're talking about and you are giving nonsense advice.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

if they're on a VPN, it doesn't matter if their ISP looks into it. and with the plethora of streaming apps out there today, it's uncommon if a customer isn't downloading dozens of GB of data every day. just a single movie on netflix is several GB right there, and if you're the sort of person who is bingwatching shows, you're going through dozens, maybe even a hundred or more gigabytes daily if you're a real couch potato.

and if your ISP did care enough to investigate why you were using a VPN, all you would have to do it tell them you're watching netflix and there's nothing they can do to prove otherwise unless your VPN is shit and is leaking your DNS.

[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 15 hours ago

It kind of does matter. If you're hot-swapping in and out nearly all of the time for this and that, that is considered suspicious activity. If you knew a single thing about how networking works, they can see just about anything. Where you went, the unencrypted data that is sent and received and vice versa. They may not know exactly the file you downloaded or the page specifically you're at, but they can put two and two together if they think your activity lines up with the data it is coming from and to.

And once again, I have said, if you read at all, downloading gigs and gigs in a single day. You're bringing up streaming which is something they'd know and expect by now, so of course it's not going to bring attention. They also are aware that VPNs are advertised so much that they probably expect you to hop around to stream something you can't normally.

They're not going to directly ask you why you're using a VPN, they're more than likely going to ask you why are you using so much data up on X date and Y date? And then they could ask you what purpose did you have visiting this site at those dates too.

My point is about the amount of consumption you put into downloading many files, they don't give a damn about your streaming habits since they know very well we've been in the age of streaming for a while now.