It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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[–] nhu@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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/

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 years ago

He said torrent, not tor.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Torrenting over TOR doesn't make you anonymous. How is that misleading?

[–] prole@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

That's kind of what they said though?

[–] Anders429@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, I misread it the exact same way