I want to use myanonymouse to download/seed books but it requires you to download from the same IP as you use to browse the website. My qBittorrent is in docker container on my home server, using gluetun with a VPN.

I tried both of these instructions to no avail I think there is something I’m missing. Shadowsocksqt5 latency just says “error” and using the chrome extension suggestion just simply doesn’t load anything.

The reason I don’t want to seed from my workstation pc is because myanonymouse requires you to seed to maintain your account and the workstation is mostly off. My home server is always on. Any ideas?

  • Xyre
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    6 months ago

    You could run Firefox in a container attached to the VPN for browsing. You could then connect to it from your workstation over your LAN.

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      6 months ago

      Unrelated from the prompt:
      This may effect the sandboxing of Firefox and change the fingerprint of your browser.

    • Bigfoot@lemm.eeOP
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      6 months ago

      I did actually do it this way for a while, it’s clunky but works. Unfortunately my Firefox container stopped loading, I tried Chrome and N.eko which also had issues and I’m not experienced enough to overcome those.