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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Proton with paid plans supports it or Windscribe.
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Note that Proton only supports it on Windows.
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Their app only supports it on Windows, but you can configure it with OpenVPN and Wireguard.
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Not a big fan of proton since you can't have a dedicated password for the VPN. I'll look into Windscribe, thank you.
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You do get a dedicated username and password for OpenVPN.
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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).
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also a protonvpn user. Had no problems
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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.
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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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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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