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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just switched to AirVPN. All works well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I've been really impressed with it so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have been a happy Proton VPN user for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is a list of VPN services that accept crypto payments (a good proxy for being privacy friendly) https://kycnot.me/services#VPN

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noob here. What's wrong with not having portforwarding?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeding/downloading torrents with private trackers requires portforwarding to be effective, also accessing a home network from the internet (I'm still researching that usecase, if someone has any useful tutorials I'll take it.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So does not having port forwarding mean it’s not safe to use it for torrenting? As long as my ISP doesn’t know I’m illegally torrenting stuff, I’m not really concerned personally

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It is as safe, it just adds extra (needed) functionality. See this post that was shared by Brickfrog right above https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/441108

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you can even port forward with the free plan of ProtonVPN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can't. Proton only supports torrenting on specific servers that aren't included in the free plan

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

cryptostorm, perfect-privacy, njalla, airvpn, protonvpn, windscribe. there's alot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

perfect-privacy requires PF to be set every 7 days. otherwise it’s good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus what a pain in the ass. I get that there are limited ports but that would drive me up the wall pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have the option to auto-renew them. No downsides here imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The explanation of auto-renew says: "On expiration, new port forwardings will be created. The source port will be chosen randomly.". How will that work with bt client?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not too sure. Right now I have a 1-to-1 forwarding which will expire later tonight and I have the auto-renew on. I will let you know if the port switches up or not.

Edit: I would not recommend Perfect-Privacy, their autorenew does not work.