Hello people, I’ve been thinking of getting a RealDebrid account thanks to the recommendation of some folks here but people are saying that the RealDebrid is keeping logs on their users so I am trying to get an account using a VPN. The issue is that if you are using a VPN the only payment option is through Coinbase which I have no idea how to use.
My question is that how have you folks have paid for it anonymously and what you’d suggest for the payment.
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Is your concern using it for torrenting? Or for downloads from one click hosters?
Are there reports of RD exposing it’s users to the industry?
For torrenting. I am not aware of them exposing users but people were saying that if they get hacked or cracked down by the police it may get problematic.
Sorry if this is off-topic but one thing to keep in mind when obtaining torrents through any of the debrid type services is that they do not seed back. I’ve tested both alldebrid and real-debrid in the past year or so and they immediately hop off the swarm as soon as they are done downloading.
I understand that they let you avoid getting copyright notices and have used them in the past for that reason. An alternative that would be much better for the community and still allow you to avoid copyright notices would be using a VPN that allows port forwarding with a torrent client like qbittorrent that can be configured to only communicate through the VPN connection. I recommend seeding back for as long as you can but 24 hours or until you hit a 1.0 ratio isn’t horrible for keeping public torrents alive.
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You can use a VPN as long as it’s on their pre-approved list of providers (see their list here), but, as OP said, you can’t use one while doing the setup to pay for their service.
I did, but I had to pay in Bitcoin
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I wouldn’t use coinbase either. Not as my wallet anyway.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=ou6Cflp8xGA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Not if you use something like Mullvad that doesn’t require an email to sign up and doesn’t log user activity.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/
Might not be perfect, but it’s more secure.
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I was able to pay with a Paysafe card which I bought with cash locally - so apart from the IP I was using to buy the account I was Anonymus
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Just pay with crypto
You can only pay with kyc so it’s not anonymous and even if you use a vpn with real debrid once you login to your account without it they know your ip so there is no way to use it anonymously.
You can only pay with kyc
You don’t need to KYC for your real debrid payment
once you login to your account without it they know your ip
That’s a real bummer that always applies - that’s why you need to have a kill switch, configure your firewall and check for leaks on a regular basis. I am always connected to some VPNs
You do need kyc. Could you explain how to pay for real debrid without kyc? Vpns are not private or anonymous anyways. You don’t think law inforcements can figure out who you are just because you use a vpn?
Well if you want to pay real debrid with crypto, you just select BTC as payment option, then you get redirected to coinbase.
Here you can select BTC, ETH or LTC, it will then generate a payment string you can transfer funds to from every wallet, no KYC required in any way.
Other than that, yes VPN is part of a good “OpSec” and will also grant you most probably the privacy need
The other part of OpSec is using arch
Why just arch? There are other linux distros that are more privacy focused
I thought you had to give out your id for coinbase and you have to pay with your credit card so that crypto you buy is linked to and bitcoin is not private at all, everything is on the blockchain.
You don’t need a coinbase wallet, its just one of the options, you can pay with any wallet. Just start a local node, fire up a wallet and send your funds
It’s still bitcoin so there is still no private way to pay
