What VPN should I use now that Mullvad doesn't allow portforwarding? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by returnofblank@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] ThatGuy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.

[-] Ado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It's useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.

[-] FuryFaceofDoom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I use Proton VPN, but it's not free.

[-] fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn't allows P2P/torrential.

[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Well I liked Mullvad because they genuinely supported privacy.

I'm using port forwarding to access by server by SSH. I guess not anymore :/

[-] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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.