Was he using another debrid service? Because from what I understand you can only stream if the file is cached by the service, otherwise torrentio just gives you the torrent. Without a VPN it makes sense why he got DMCA’d

Yep this is what I’ve done. Seems to work so far.

What add-ons do you recommend?

My first comment was the most upvoted comment on a subreddit. I got 19 upvoted.