My VPN plan is up for renewal, and I'd like to move from my current provider (Privado) to one that supports port forwarding while maintaining access to a SOCKS5 service.

AirVPN would have been my choice, but doesn't have SOCKS5.

Private Internet Access checks off the boxes but I'm not familiar with the company behind it.

Thanks for the help and recommendations.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

PIA is probably fine until there's legitimate evidence demonstrating they aren't, there are only baseless accusations at present based on who owns them

[–] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

i know probably nobody wants to hear that, but PIA is dead to me since they sponsored fucking fascist Gab a few years back.

[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gab?

[–] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

a fascist social network, gab_com. pia had an affiliate partnership with them a few years back, they knew and didn't do sth about it.

[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's out of left field. WTF. Not a lot of options left. Sounds like just Air VPN?

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use PIA because they're the only ones who support split tunnel and port forwarding on my OS. My torrent client and some chat apps run through the tunnel and everything else is bypassed. I'd use TOR on top of it if I wanted to do anything truly dodgy, which I don't.

[–] Slaxis@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Same. Split tunnel, SOCKS5, port forwarding…