What was Mullvad port forwarding about?
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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They deleted the feature because of pedos ๐คฎ
Pedos, COVID, war et al is an excuse. After the recent raid, I believe that to avoid becoming a honeypot, they cut off the most risky source of activities - P2P torrenting. My basis of this claim are three things โ torrent traffic is colossal, and torrents are mostly used for piracy (Mullvad evading DMCA issues) and ProtonVPN free tier does the exact same thing with banning P2P torrenting.
Do you know a not sus VPN that supports p2p torrenting? I ๐ดโโ ๏ธ tens of games a month and recently our fascist government just passed a draconian anti piracy law, what VPN should I look to?
There are only 4 left, with each having various degrees of issues.
- AirVPN: the only one with multiple ports for forwarding, but no logging policy is an issue
- IVPN: the strongest VPN option but with only 1 port for forwarding
- ProtonVPN: good option overall but no anonymous payment option
- Windscribe: good option but with limited port forwarding and an unfortunate incident in 2019 (no customer data was compromised though)
All I want to say is we have limited time as pirates unless an underground net is established that is not leech-y like private trackers are. Give or take, less than two years, being optimistic as a small scale data curator/hoarder.
Would you move to usenet to no longer use torrents?
Not sure, I have data hoarded so many things which I can stick to, combined with Russian pirate portals and good ol VirusTotal and KVRT offline scans. Usenet is way down the consideration list.
What about Mullvad?
Mullvad has stopped providing port forwarding, which means torrenting can leak IP often enough to endanger users.
Edit: I made a minor mistake in a hurry, port forwarding affects torrenting in that you connect to less seeds/peers, although you could still bind it to your torrent client.
Can you explain a bit more, if you don't mind? From what I've read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don't see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I've never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I'm just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I'm not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.
I seemed to have mixed binding and VPN provider credibility in a hurry. Sorry for that. So, port forwarding gets you more seeds/peers during torrenting, and lacking that affects torrenting.
Wait till the upcoming Imgur purge recreates an ImageShack/TinyPic 2.0 situation.
Purge? Is this about the porn ban, or something else?
Images that will be purged slowly include any images uploaded by non registered users as well. May 15, 2023 was 2 weeks ago, so the TOS is in effect already. Enjoy the collapse.