PSA: Don't torrent over TOR

For bittorrent and p2p it is better to use i2p, tor only to surf the internet.

I pay monthly for access to a SOCKS5 proxy service from a company called BTGuard, and tell my BT client to connect through that. It is not expensive and works great I've been using it for about 12 or 13 years, and found it after getting an email from my ISP saying they identified me downloading TV shows. In that time, I have only had issues a handful of times. More reliable than most other services I pay for and I've never seen another DMCA notice since.

I didn't think people torrented over TOR. Aside from the security issues (which I didn't know about in the first place), I would think it's gotta be insanely slow. Is it not?

is it okay if I download a .torrent file from private trackers through TOR browser?

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

Torrent via I2P instead

Did I2P take off enough for one to use it?

I torrent without any protection or vpn, its legal here

Get a vpn

Tor is a TCP only network.
Can someone ELI5 this point for me? I know there is TCP and UDP, is UDP safer then ?

Edit: I misread the statement. Thanks for pointing this out to all the repliers! My fault.

The first point of the answer is misleading. Tor is indeed designed with anonymity in mind. The leaks occur in different layers, like the for e.g. chosen BitTorrent client.

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

That's what Tribler is for

Any plan on doing torrent over veilid?

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

Since when was that possible?

Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind

Then what in the fuck was it designed in mind with, sir?

Tor was also built by the Navy right? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make it easy to get away with breaking the law over that