solitude, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

The process some others have described is called binding. You want to bind qBit to your VPN. qBit will only work if your VPN is active then. Close the VPN (while uploading/downloading) and qBit automatically loses it’s connection. This is above and beyond a “kill-switch,” which is notoriously unreliable. Most decent VPNs have a built in kill switch, but you should not solely rely on it.

I use Mullvad, but here is the Proton page you need to refer to: https://protonvpn.com/support/bittorrent-vpn/

“Binding your BitTorrent client to the VPN interface” and “How to bind the client to the Proton VPN interface.”

To be sure, you should still continue only starting qBit after your VPN is active (obviously don’t have it startup with your operating system).