Does TOR protect privacy of bittorrent clients like Transmission?

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Published on 2013-10-31T23:41:15Z Indexed on 2013/11/01 4:16 UTC
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I am using the Tor bundle and its included browser to initiate torrent downloads with the Transmission client included with Lubuntu.

Clicking on a torrent link provides a warning message that external apps are NOT protected by Tor and clicking ok results in normal Transmission start and it begins the download.

I have seen assertions in another post answer that Tor starts Transmission using a different profile than the normal $HOME/.config/transmission. However, I see no evidence of the referenced different profile on my system ( $HOME/tor-browser_en-US/.config/transmission). The normal privacy settings provided within Transmission seem inadequate for privacy according to what I have read. Has something changed in how Tor bundle browser (firefox) interacts with supporting apps like Transmission. Tor bundle otherwise seems to be operating correctly. I asked the question in the post but it was deleted by moderator for some reason not given

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