For installing plugins, I am fine with it, but would not want any telemetry being sent somewhere without my knowledge. The data collected should stay on my server.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check that out in more detail!

Ah, I see. What kind of disk usage are we talking about over e.g. one month? I am (at least for now) not necessarily interested in long term storage (but the data hoarder in me might quickly change that).

Freetube exists for Android also.

Syncthing is your friend. Freetube stores playlists, history, settings and subscriptions as .db-files which you can sync between devices. Android version also allows access to these files if enabled in settings.

This is my solution also. I listen to audio books on my way to work, and read on an ebook-reader in the evening. Can be tricky to sync when the chapter structure is non-traditional though (e.g. Discworld).

Depending on how diverse your taste is, you could always try to branch out to something outside of “similar artists”. Just look up genre names and start checking them out. If you find something you like, you can use the same " similar artists" approach on an entirely new search space.

What are you looking for in a host?

Hm, after the initial upload, it shouldn’t really generate much traffic if I can only manage to upload the diff, so it might not be much of an issue for me. I am not yet really familiar with tools like rsync and rclone, and also don’t know how the changes are stored in the Borg repo (e.g. if I move a 1 GB file from one folder to another, does that get picked up as a 1 GB change by the syncing tools?), so I would need to do some more research to see if that would be achievable.

Hetzner also looks nicely priced, but it would’ve been nice if I could choose an even cheaper tier with less storage, as 1 TB is quite overkill for this particular use case. I could of course use it to backup other things.

Not a requirement that it is E2EE, as the Borg repo is already encrypted. Guess my knowledge of these services is biased towards E2EE from previous research for use cases where that was a requirement.

Thanks for the tip, hadn’t hard about Backblaze before. Very reasonable pricing. Would a good strategy then be to schedule rclone to have it synced, or are there other ways that would be better?

Hm, I don’t see any IPv6 addresses anywhere, even on https://ipv6.ipleak.net/

Yeah, that is true - I didn’t formulate that quite well. This also happens to me when the kill switch is enabled, as it is disabled when I disconnect. However, it would not disable itself if I simply lost connection, which is in the case where I most want the leak protection. In the other cases, I could make sure to always quit qBittorrent before disconnecting from the VPN. Not ideal, as it would be easy to make a mistake.

tun0 goes away when I am disconnected, so I don’t think anything is keeping it open. I noticed that connections in Proton VPN were set to UDP, so I changed this to TCP and this seems to have worked. Will still want to do more testing to be sure.

I don’t seem to have v3 installed, by the way. The old GUI tool seems to have been uninstalled when upgrading, and the CLI tool I unisntalled myself.

How could I check this?

That is unfortunately not available in the Linux client.

I’m using the Torrent Address Detection tool, which I assume is checking the IP broadcast by my torrent client.

That was the case until the recent update to the Linux GUI client. I had to change the network interface bind in qBittorrent because the proton0-one stopped appearing. I assumed they had just made some changes, but could this mean that something is faulty with my install?

It is the “Torrent Address detection” magnet link I am using, and it is this that reveals my real IP when the VPN is disabled. The traffic in qBittorrent stops though.

EDIT: And as I mentioned in an earlier post, it works as intended if I open the client when not connected to the VPN. It is just if the client is running while I disconnect that this problem occurs, as far as I can tell.

If I start the client without being connected through the VPN, my IP does not show up. It is only when the VPN connection is disconnected and I transition from one network interface to another. This is also if I have the kill switch enabled, so I imagine that if the connection is lost, I am safe as all internet access would be blocked then. And that it is only if I manually disconnect myself that this happens.

Could this be a Proton VPN issue? I am pretty sure I checked this previously, and didn’t see it before the recent Linux client GUI update, but I am not entirely sure.

I’ve tried staring with all my might at the different options in the hopes I might identify something. I did turn off the features suggested above in the comment field, but have still been unable to solve it.