Proton does... but you need to use a shell script to enable it on Linux. It's easy enough and documented on their site, but it's annoying. Mullvad does not, that's why I moved away from them. Can't speak for others

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

This is why I moved from Mullvad to Proton. Mullvad worked great for me, but then I started my own media server, and port forwarding goes a long way for torrenting Linux ISOs. Proton also offers double the active connections as Mullvad, which helps when hooking it up to various Gluetun containers which are mostly routed through different servers for one reason or another. And despite how gimmicky the marketing for it is, the "VPN accelerator" fuckin works.

That being said, Proton sketches me out - their CEO has said some awful bullshit last year, and it just feels like enshittification is around the corner. But their VPN is proven and works great.

I'd love to go back to Mullvad for those reasons, but the feature set Proton offers right now is unmatched imo.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Not anymore. Port forwarding now works from the app, been using it for months now.

Agreed the script was a pain in the ass

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Proton is too fucking expensive.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same price as Mullvad, about a fiver a month, if you buy a year at a time. Annoying that you have to buy a year upfront but works out to the same price

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Paid for itself for a year in like 2-3 movies!

[–] barnaclebill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you know if Proton's port forwarding times out and needs to be reconfigured every so often in the same way the other commenter mentions about Windscribe?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's pretty solid, but if you reconnect to a different server then you'll likely have a different port number. There's an add-on script for docker qbittorrent though that auto updates the port number.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

I have it alias the external port to local port 2000 and point qbittorrent at 2000

[–] easydnesto@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For Linux it does timeout and basically just need to run a bash while loop to keep open. I’m not sure if windows is the same way, but from what I hear it’s more integrated.

Overall the port forwarding is not that big of a hassle on Linux. It’s an opt in feature and I just have bash aliases to enable the port forwarding when I need it.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Same

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Windscribe, although unless you pay an extra $2/month they time out and need to be reconfigured after one week.