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.

  • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of “lack of recent activity”, whatever the hell that means.

    • Ado@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        It’s useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.

        • RandomDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • PzkM@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I’d recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.