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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 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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.

[–] SyJ@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service

[–] FuryFaceofDoom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, just a shame the few people who abused it, ruined it for everyone else