Can turn off the damned thing this way

Go to your games install directory and find the launcher.settings file and open it in notepad.

Change the line "bitraider_disable": false to "bitraider_disable": true

and the line "PatchingMode": "{ \"swtor\": \"BR\" }" to "PatchingMode": "{ \"swtor\": \"SSN\" }"


Has worked for me every time I've come back since the institution of Bitraider