What are good alternatives since Mullvad and IVPN disabled their portforwarding?
What are good alternatives since Mullvad and IVPN disabled their portforwarding?
Proton with paid plans supports it or Windscribe.
21Note that Proton only supports it on Windows.
14Their 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.
8You do get a dedicated username and password for OpenVPN.
5Windscribe 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
5Are 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?
10See the other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/312389
12Thank 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
6@AgedCheddar is Windscribe trustworthy?
1They meet the criteria for Privacy Guides, at the very least: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/1312
2I 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 😒
5Just switched to AirVPN. All works well.
4Same 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.
3You 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?
1Been 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.
1Here is a list of VPN services that accept crypto payments (a good proxy for being privacy friendly) https://kycnot.me/services#VPN
1cryptostorm, perfect-privacy, njalla, airvpn, protonvpn, windscribe. there's alot.
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