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What VPN should I use now that Mullvad doesn't allow portforwarding? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm mainly only using it for p2p, everything else is secondary. Portforwarding is necessary though.

Edit: Decided on AirVPN. It wasn't too pricy, only 2 dollars above my current Usenet + Indexer plan.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve had mullvad for years but never forwarded a port. What’s the use case? Like if a game won’t connect properly or something? Just curious what I’m missing out on

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, they're shutting off port-forwarding because there were probably a bunch of users abusing the service and using it to distribute CSAM, and they got tired of having law enforcement at their door. Port-forwarding itself isn't inherently bad, but when it's used for that purpose it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Can't access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of "lack of recent activity", whatever the hell that means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Proton VPN, but it's not free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn't allows P2P/torrential.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Good choice on AirVPN, never had a single issue with them in the 6 years I’ve used it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been considering switching to Proton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

From a port-forwarding perspective, I've heard that Proton VPN is clunky at best. It only works on Windows and the port changes frequently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are you using for Usenet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Eweka + NZBGeek Eweka has a massive sale, but I can't find it because it's on a privated Reddit sub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use protonvpn's tor servers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been hearing great stuff about ProtonVPN, might as well try it out.

My other option was Windscribe, which I heard was good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My father had a pretty bad experience with windscribe. Well at least he attributes it to windscribe, I'll never know for sure.