You can but you don't need to. All they really do is organise everything. Any requests go through Prowlarr/Jackett which do the API calls then push that to qBit. One could argue you should put Prowlarr behind a VPN as well but it depends on the trackers you have in there.
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I've really been liking Tidal. It has a fair shake of Aussie artists and has a radio feature that feels very exploratory. I can go to John Williamson and tap radio and it doesn't feel like it's trying to cram Billboard Top 100 down my throat.
This isn't true. I used a debit card from a different country and it worked fine.
And a lesson to all as to why backups are essential.
There is with Purelymail. And it's only $10/year.
Have you tried using Calibre with Readarr? You use Readarr and the request tool then you can tell Readarr to use Calibre to manipulate the library. I find that this does a fantastic job of sorting out all of my ebooks with all their editions and naming conventions.
That depends on the site. With a seedbox for even just one month (€6, one time), anywhere with freeleech becomes trivial with autobrr and a little bit of setup. I joined IPT not long ago and got over 1TB of buffer within 2 weeks. Music trackers and unforgiving niche are generally the hardest.
MaM is definitely not for movies and tv as OP request, only books. You can get invites here though for other entry level private trackers.
That sounds a bit suspicious to me.
The build number is 8445
Proton defines Strong as at least 75 bits of entropy and over 100 bits is recommended. May have soemthing to do with that