this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I use Mullvad. They have you buy time upfront at a fixed price, have lots of payment options, and at one point were subpoenaed and proved to the Swedish government they don't store any user data and therefore have nothing to turn over. They have a nice app too, I like them.
They're disabling port forwarding due to some bad actors... That's why we can't have nice things.
For those who don't know, port forwarding is mainly used for torrent seeders, aka the people who upload files to other people.
That's a shame. I hope it causes more services to be cool with their IP addresses, but it's unfortunate for toerrenting and running local forwarded servers.
I also use mullvad. They're the best I've used and offer tons of servers across the globe
Indeed, apparently there are some American-based VPN companies that piggyback off their servers, so I figured why not use the service directly. Their apps are also full of features, so I really think the €5 a month price is worth it.
The biggest problem of Mullvard, when I tried it, is that I cannot access to any streaming services. While atm with proton I have no problem at all
Apparently the reason for that is because malicious actors were port forwarding using Mullvad. They're now disabling that feature, so it's possible they will be whitelisted again in the future.