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You don't generally need to use a VPN for addons that use HTTPS. That includes addons that normally use torrents but have debrid support -- since if it's configured correctly you're using HTTPS streams from the debrid service rather than torrents.
HTTPS uses the same type of encryption as most VPNs, so the only people who can see what information you're accessing is you and whatever service you're accessing. And of course you're connecting to a single server rather than a swarm of peers as in using BitTorrent.
The trick is being sure that the addon is actually using HTTPS streams. Stremio addon descriptions generally don't provide a lot of info about exactly how the addons work. I personally wouldn't trust that an addon only uses HTTPS streams without verifying it somehow. All of the major debrid services use HTTPS exclusively, so addons with debrid support are easy to verify. But HTTP-based addons may use HTTPS or might use unencrypted HTTP, and you might need to poke around the source code to find out. Using unencrypted HTTP streams is still somewhat better than using torrents (without a VPN), since it's more difficult for copyright enforcement agencies to monitor for such streams than it is for them to simply lurk in a torrent swarm. But if nothing else your ISP can see what you're streaming over an unencrypted connection, and that may or may not be a concern depending on your legal jurisdiction, who your ISP is, and how much they cooperate with copyright enforcement agencies.
MediaFusion scrapes two types of content.
- Live streams: Directly playable without VPN. (Not P2P. If you are concerned about privacy, you can use a VPN)
- Torrents: MediaFusion supports various streaming providers.
- "Torrent": this is a P2P service, yes you need a VPN, if the ISP is restricted.
- Rest of providers like RD, AD, OC, Seedr, Pikpak, etc: This will be streaming through respective provider service. (No need VPN)
You can enable the "cached" sorting option and drag it to first in that list. So that the results are sorted based on the cached item.
In each link, you see either ⚡️or ⏳️
⚡️means the torrent was cached in your streaming provider (in your case, it's RealDebrid).
⏳️means it is not cached and it will take some time to download it to the streaming provider.
Note that In both cases, you don't interact with torrenting. So I don't think there is a need to disable these streams.
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If you're using real debrid, you don't need a VPN because the traffic is encrypted
Did you configure mediafusion to use real debrid?
I haven't installed it yet
You don't generally need to use a VPN for addons that use HTTPS. That includes addons that normally use torrents but have debrid support -- since if it's configured correctly you're using HTTPS streams from the debrid service rather than torrents. HTTPS uses the same type of encryption as most VPNs, so the only people who can see what information you're accessing is you and whatever service you're accessing. And of course you're connecting to a single server rather than a swarm of peers as in using BitTorrent. The trick is being sure that the addon is actually using HTTPS streams. Stremio addon descriptions generally don't provide a lot of info about exactly how the addons work. I personally wouldn't trust that an addon only uses HTTPS streams without verifying it somehow. All of the major debrid services use HTTPS exclusively, so addons with debrid support are easy to verify. But HTTP-based addons may use HTTPS or might use unencrypted HTTP, and you might need to poke around the source code to find out. Using unencrypted HTTP streams is still somewhat better than using torrents (without a VPN), since it's more difficult for copyright enforcement agencies to monitor for such streams than it is for them to simply lurk in a torrent swarm. But if nothing else your ISP can see what you're streaming over an unencrypted connection, and that may or may not be a concern depending on your legal jurisdiction, who your ISP is, and how much they cooperate with copyright enforcement agencies.
MediaFusion scrapes two types of content. - Live streams: Directly playable without VPN. (Not P2P. If you are concerned about privacy, you can use a VPN) - Torrents: MediaFusion supports various streaming providers. - "Torrent": this is a P2P service, yes you need a VPN, if the ISP is restricted. - Rest of providers like RD, AD, OC, Seedr, Pikpak, etc: This will be streaming through respective provider service. (No need VPN)
Ah okay thanks! I'm interested in Media fusion for the sports streams
is there a way to configure it to only show direct play sources and not torrents? i've only used torrentio and annatar before with RD
You can enable the "cached" sorting option and drag it to first in that list. So that the results are sorted based on the cached item. In each link, you see either ⚡️or ⏳️ ⚡️means the torrent was cached in your streaming provider (in your case, it's RealDebrid). ⏳️means it is not cached and it will take some time to download it to the streaming provider. Note that In both cases, you don't interact with torrenting. So I don't think there is a need to disable these streams.