I'm confused with the VPN vs Proxy as far as privacy goes.

aborgraffiti

I was wondering why with the proxy (turned on in utorrent) you don't have anything popping up in peerblock but when you only have the vpn on there's a ton of things that come up? 

VPN: http://tinypic.com/m/i52ooi/2

PROXY: http://tinypic.com/m/i52ooh/2

What does that mean if the contact my computer do they know who I am or what?

OmniNegro

Peerblock has VPN and Proxy IPs in the lists. The 10.*.*.* IP range is PIA. You can safely disregard it or entirely disable Peerblock if you like.

aborgraffiti

Peerblock has VPN and Proxy IPs in the lists. The 10.*.*.* IP range is PIA. You can safely disregard it or entirely disable Peerblock if you like.

ah thank you

VPN

Peerblock probably doesn't understand the Socks protocol, so it doesn't look inside. It will only see the connection to the Socks server, and won't list it if it isn't blocked.

I don't understand why they block stuff. They have nearly 25% of the v4 address space in their list. Seems stupid.

OmniNegro

Peerblock probably doesn't understand the Socks protocol, so it doesn't look inside. It will only see the connection to the Socks server, and won't list it if it isn't blocked.

I don't understand why they block stuff. They have nearly 25% of the v4 address space in their list. Seems stupid.

It is stupid. I use it occasionally, but I have well over 1 billion IPs blocked when I use it. 99% of the hits are not anything I want blocked anyway, and I doubt it is even possible to verify most of the list(s) is/are worth using.