What are good alternatives since Mullvad and IVPN disabled their portforwarding?
What are good alternatives since Mullvad and IVPN disabled their portforwarding?
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Noob here. What's wrong with not having portforwarding?
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See the other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/312389
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Thank you!
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Seeding/downloading torrents with private trackers requires portforwarding to be effective, also accessing a home network from the internet (I'm still researching that usecase, if someone has any useful tutorials I'll take it.)
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I really like Windscribe
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@AgedCheddar is Windscribe trustworthy?
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They meet the criteria for Privacy Guides, at the very least: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/1312
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I think they are, at very least on par with Mullvad. Much better than the likes of Nord, PIA, Express, and the likes
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I had no idea but it looks like I’m going to have to reconfigure my stack again 😒
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Just switched to AirVPN. All works well.
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Same here. I've been really impressed with it so far.
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I think you can even port forward with the free plan of ProtonVPN.
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You can't. Proton only supports torrenting on specific servers that aren't included in the free plan
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I have been a happy Proton VPN user for years.
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I use ProtonVPN and am happy but not sure if they allow port forwarding.
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How do proxies work with port forwarding? Are proxies an option? No matter what I will use a VPN at all times but by using a proxy in your bittorrent client, could you get "port forwarding" functionality?
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Been using windscribe custom plan (2$USD/m) for years. Great apps (all are foss i think), great support (linux/android/windows/iot). I believe they have good privacy practices.
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Here is a list of VPN services that accept crypto payments (a good proxy for being privacy friendly) https://kycnot.me/services#VPN
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Proton with paid plans supports it or Windscribe.
Note that Proton only supports it on Windows.
Their app only supports it on Windows, but you can configure it with OpenVPN and Wireguard.
https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding-manual-setup/
I use it on Linux. It's in the AUR if you'r on Arch as well as them having instructions to setup the client on a variety of distros:
https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/#linux_app
Not a big fan of proton since you can't have a dedicated password for the VPN. I'll look into Windscribe, thank you.
You do get a dedicated username and password for OpenVPN.
Windscribe is fantastic. Been using them for years without issues. Support is great and I believe they've been proven to not scrape data on their customers (obviously verify independently if that's important to you).
also a protonvpn user. Had no problems
Are either/both of these blocked by Netflix and such? I know Mullvad took the stance of not genuinely caring about that -- which is fine, just meant some enabling/disabling annoyances.