You all forgot to add the best yt-dlp option: --sponsorblock-remove all

DHT and tackers leaks you IP, on purpose. The goal is to establish connections between peers, the only way to do that is to use IP adresses. DHT and trackers act like a DNS, giving list of IPs associated to a torrent hash.

Now if you use a VPN, well configured, you’ll only expose your VPN output node IP.

Don’t disable DHT and PeX, both are used together to find peers on public torrents, in fact it is the only decentralized way to find them (otherwise you only rely on trackers, which can be DNS censored or took down like any regular website).

DHT is great! DHT is the bone that make torrent unstoppable!