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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Even if you manage to pay for it anonymously which you can't and use a vpn with it once you connect with your real ip they already know who you are. Vpns are not private at all and you can't use one with real debrid anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did, but I had to pay in Bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bitcoin is not private not at all defenetly not in coinbase, credit card payments are even more private. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6Cflp8xGA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=ou6Cflp8xGA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't use coinbase either. Not as my wallet anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know but vpns are not private if the police wanted to they would be able to get his real ip and he probably used his personal email to make the account so he is already fully identified

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Real debrid does not support mullvad

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ok well they already know who you are then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)