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Any VPNs comparable to IVPN and Mullvad by privacy, but also have port forwarding? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by german@pawb.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Since IVPN and Mullvad are both phasing out port forwarding, are there any alternatives? I am not looking for something like NordVPN which is a privacy nightmare. AirVPN is also not private enough considering I’ve seen reports online of ISPs sending out DMCA letters of gold to its users.

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[-] eximo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I moved from mullvad to ivpn and now again on the lookout. I guess i2p is “the future” but right now I’m not sure how that works with private trackers.

Whilst you can still torrent without port forwarding I don’t think seeding works right?

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

Seeding still works without port forwarding but uploading your owns torrents is not possible

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

You also can't be the only seeder on a torrent for the same reason.

[-] eximo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. I am on a private tracker that requires it so will test proton vpn. If they remove it then I guess I just leave the tracker. 🙁

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Which one is that? Any I have seen just requires to seed with no mention of port forwarding.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Without port forwarding your tracker will show you as disconnected and not give you credit.

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

That's not entirely true- you can upload your own, but you can only seed to users that do have port forwarding. On many trackers, that initial seed is all going to seed boxes with an autograb script enabled anyway, and those do have port forwarding.

[-] ninchuka@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

maybe have ID you can put into a client to send when your downloading? or maybe just private trackers fade away out of relevancy?

[-] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

There are other alternatives, mainly Blackhat/scene VPNs which have server raids multiple times because of very illegal shit being done by the users, which I doubt will remove port-forwarding simply because of DMCA lol...