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.
Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.
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
It’s useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.
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.
If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service
PIA allows port forwarding in certain country exit points
That’s what I use, PIA definitely isn’t a great provider (in a lot of ways), but they’re reliable, fast, and very cheap if you get in one one of their frequent sales.
I use Proton VPN, but it’s not free.
It’s pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn’t allows P2P/torrential.
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.
Good choice on AirVPN, never had a single issue with them in the 6 years I’ve used it.
What?? Why did they remove that?
People were hosting nefarious sites and services using their port forwarding, which brought law enforcement to them, IPs being blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling them.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
I’ve been using AirVPN for many years (including port forwarding). I have zero complaints.
I have been considering switching to Proton.
I’ve been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I’d recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.
I use protonvpn’s tor servers
I’ve been hearing great stuff about ProtonVPN, might as well try it out.
My other option was Windscribe, which I heard was good.
My father had a pretty bad experience with windscribe. Well at least he attributes it to windscribe, I’ll never know for sure.
What are you using for Usenet?
Eweka + NZBGeek Eweka has a massive sale, but I can’t find it because it’s on a privated Reddit sub.
