Downloading through TOR partially bypasses TOR network. (original) (raw)

When using the following command to route the download through TOR... the initial part of the transfer that fetches file info still goes over the non-TOR network, i.e. it bypasses TOR.

youtube-dl --external-downloader /usr/local/bin/curl --external-downloader-args '''--socks5 127.0.0.1:9150''' URL

Verified using tcpdump.