What are some good options to change from defaults in qbittorrent?

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Just curious if the defaults are safe enough or privacy focused enough.

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As stated above, make sure to bind Qbit to your VPN's ethernet adapter. Other than that setup search plug-ins/Jackett and enjoi the best torrenting software there is.

What's a VPN /s

Reportinging in form a country whey they need a court order to get a name/address

Then you're probably fine

Unless you are Kim Dot Com, the the Yanks can f you over even if they break NZ law id doing so

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I've only set the interface to use my VPN, so I'm very interested in any advanced suggestions as well.

If you have a hard drive as your main storage, and in particular a raid array of smr hard drives, it's worth checking the 'pre-allocate disk space for all files' check box in the connection settings. it keeps disk fragmentation down and lowers raid thrashing a shitton when downloading large media files. You won't notice if it's just you using your one hard drive, but it made a huge difference on my raid5 smr setup.

Port forward

Also don't set anonymous mode, it's not useful and gives you worse performance

Change the Max up and download speed, click on them on the bottom right corner

Also set Max active torrents

There's a TOP of service setting, you can change it to 5 to seed more, but it won't have much difference afaik