When you download a torrent, every peer in the swarm can see your IP address. A proxy hides your real IP by routing your torrent traffic through a server, so other peers only see the proxy’s IP instead of yours.
This guide shows how to set up a SOCKS5 proxy in uTorrent or BitTorrent, and how to check that it actually works.
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