Regular Transmission profile is stored in $HOME/.config/transmission.If you want Transmission to use a common profile for both normal and Tor-browser torrents, you can do the following: (step-by-step not given because it is very easy to lose all currently downloading/paused torrents when you do this!) Use one common profile for Tor-Transmission and regular Transmission torrent link, which should open normal Transmission. The alternative is to simply browse using regular Firefox and click on the. If you wish to download the torrent normally instead, start the normal Transmission, and then either save a torrent from Tor-browser and load it, or copy-and-paste the link from Tor-browser. What Tor-browser does is start Transmission with a separate profile, so that torrents will be downloaded over Tor (this is usually slower). There is only one copy of the actual program, in /usr/bin/ as you noted. If, however, I try to launch Transmission from its location (usr/bin/transmission-gtk), it starts Transmission 'fresh' If I try to download a (legal!) torrent in the Tor Browser version of Firefox, it launches Transmission to do so.

As an alternative, a VPN will be 'safe' if you trust the VPN (in many countries, ISP's are required to log while VPN's are not), or you could use an anonymising network that was designed for file-sharing, such as I2P. Warning: Under no circumstances is it safe to use BitTorrent and Tor together.

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