I am fully aware of what vpn services to use and not. I am not using Express VPN, I am simply doing research for a master thesis, when I came across these results from Express VPN. If you have any ideas or corrections, please let me know why a VPN provider would need to have access to these permissions.
Screenshot is from Exodus service, which let’s you view what exactly perimissions and trackers each app uses. You can check out the results and the tool for yourself here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.expressvpn.vpn/latest/
they closed off Port Forwarding
I used to host my Minecraft server safely 😭 don’t know any trusted VPN that has Port Forwarding
ProtonVPN still offers it I believe
AirVPN
You can set up a VPS and tunnel that to your minecraft server using wireguard some iptables magic if you’re into Linux.
AirVPN still has port forwarding. They are run by a non profit activist group and you can use it without their app. Works with openvpn and wireguard natively.
Windscribe
AirVPN
PIA has port forwarding but it costs extra