Do you want to do torrenting safely on Android in 2018? Good call as phones are prone to more exposure than computers for sure. And well, the fact you are searching for how to do torrenting safely most likely means you are being naughty. We don't support it, but we also believe in privacy and therefore in your freedom to make your own calls on what you do on your internet. So how do you do torrenting safely on Android in 2018? There are a few steps involved.
Viruses love Android phones and when you are torrenting and something isn’t legal, people love to place viruses in files as if you really need to download something, you most likely won’t even think about viruses.
An antivirus can help you do torrenting safely on Android in 2018 as it can notify you when dangers arise.
While you should get an antivirus, it’s not a must. You will survive without it. You won’t survive without a VPN though.
If you download without a VPN you are exposed to the government, internet provider, your work, school, whatever it is. And being exposed is not a way to do torrenting safely on Android in 2018.
And even if your internet provider claims to not collect data on you, they do in some way. And you will most likely get a letter about it or even worse, you will feel your internet slow down, which might not even be totally legal but yet it seems like several internet providers go with that tactic. And slow internet sucks.
Well, PrivateVPN offers you 2048-bit encryption with AES-256 which is the highest level of encryption on the market along with IPv6 Leak Protection meaning that in a rare case that your VPN stops working, your internet turns off to prevent data from leaking and exposing you which is a vital feature if you want to do torrenting safely on Android.
A VPN isn’t just a thing that you keep on when downloading. You need to keep it on as long as you have the torrent app. It doesn’t matter if you have a VPN on for half a day when exposure can happen after. To do torrenting safely on Android you need to keep it on. And our Android client comes with an option to turn on automatically at boot. If you want to do torrenting safely on Android in 2018, that matters!
The second you turn your VPN off, you are potentially exposed.
Torrenting isn’t illegal. You downloading illegal files isn’t always illegal either. It’s you keeping that file and your torrenting client using you to help other people download that same file that’s illegal. The second that happens, you become the person that is sharing the illegal file, and that is a problem that you need to address.
Torrenting itself is legal. It's when illegal content get's involved that problems start. And we don’t recommend illegal content but we also do care about privacy. If you want to do torrenting safely on Android in 2018, this is how you do it.
Written by Michael Smolski.