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Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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Another use case (in addition to the BitTorrent use case) is if you want to host a site but hide your IP. You can run Nginx and configure it to listen on a port the VPN service has allocated to you. Good VPN services like AirVPN let you choose ports, and those ports are always allocated to you.
although people hosting illegal content using port forwarding is likely one of the reasons they removed it, so its a tricky problem
One of the main reasons people use VPNs is for illegal content... Port forwarding doesn't change that.
sure illegal content can be accessed over a vpn without port forwarding, but when someone is hosting a child porn site over a mullvad ip, that is clearly a larger problem
Yeah, I assume the kind of people that runs a VPN doesn't mind copyright infringement that much, but any sane person wouldn't like to contribute to the distribution of CSAM even if they are legally not doing anything wrong.
That's one of the main issues that criminals are more likely tonvalue privacy (for survival) than the average user that considers it a plus. And by criminal it can stretch from benign stuff like copyright infringement to being a hitman.