submitted 1 month ago by gemew26@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was considering buying their lifetime subscription at the end of this month, but all the bots posting reviews and commenting on Reddit don't help.

I heard about this VPN in one of my recent threads here, and I believe Lemmy is cleaner than Reddit, so here I am, ready to read what you think about the service.

Would you use it to torrent? I said I only needed to watch movies, but eventually the stuff I watch is in a "niche" language, and the sites are overcrowded, so downloading from torrent is probably the best way (at the moment I'm downloading from the streaming sites through an app and Proton, but it's getting a bit slow).

^ It's not even Proton that's the problem; it's the sites that are slow as heck, and downloading an episode each evening sometimes is too much of a PITA. (while watching it like a normal user, well after dinner is basically a 1-minute wait every 10-15 seconds or something like that)

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[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

No. It’s not good. I went ahead and subscribed when it first made the rounds and it’s spottier than other vpns, which means you’ll have a more complex and breakage prone system when you bind your torrent client to its interface and there’s no port forwarding.

You want port forwarding so you can be discovered by BitTorrent peers who don’t have exposed ports. If you don’t have it then people who are also behind nat routing devices like home routers without port forwarding or a vpn without port forwarding won’t be able to connect to you.

I would not pay any price for a vpn I intend to use for torrenting that cuts me off from part of the peers.

I also don’t trust it. They don’t take cash or monero which would be understandable if they also didn’t take other crypto but they do. I ended up burning an old gift card on it because of how sketched out I was. I havent looked into the ownership or anything but it wouldn’t be surprising if it were another kape company or something similar. The website screams “scam” and my trusty “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is” meter is off the charts.

Even other services that offered lifetime subscriptions in the past were more expensive and that was in 0s and teens money…

If you’re looking for an alternative, air is running a Black Friday sale that gets you a year for 32 euros and three years for 65 euros. That would include port forwarding on five ports, good speeds and plenty of servers with good uptime (just had to rotate one out after two years of constant use).

So it’s really between something unproven, offering a sub par experience for what seems like a scam price until it goes under, or something proven, offering a good experience for a year.

Unless you don’t think you’ll have access to $40 or so bucks over the next year I’d go with air instead.