Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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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.
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.
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.
PIA allows port forwarding in certain country exit points
Well I liked Mullvad because they genuinely supported privacy.
I'm using port forwarding to access by server by SSH. I guess not anymore :/
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.