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Protooon, bitches
I used to have Mullvad but it recently disabled portforwarding-support. Now I ditched it in favor of Proton since I already had a Proton subscription running. I am still looking out for a VPN that supports portforwarding though, in a way that a non-tech-savvy person like myself can run it on Linux. No idea where and how to do that now.
Can you tell me why someone would need port forwarding with a VPN? Genuinely don’t know.
Increased access to p2p networks
Running some sort of server, I’d assume.
Heard that AirVPN has better port forwarding support which could be an option.
Didn’t know them yet, I’ll look into it, thanks for the tip
my own wireguard server. i use it to watch one of those iptv “all included” services as well as stream from torrents and hosters. for anonymity i usually use, proxychains, tor or a mix of both.
windscribe, but i might switch to mullvad
Only VPN I would trust is Mullvad
Proton was accused to give access to mails to authorities : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58476983
NordVPN and others are usually linked to your email + credit card stuff and you blindly need to trust them
Not only have they provided the data, but they were even called “really easy to work with” by the feds
Do you have a source for this? Thanks
I trust my ISP more than a random VPN provider. I use HTTPS for everything anyways.
Ssl will hide the contents but not the metadata. It’s easy enough to build a profile on you just by understanding what sites you visit.
Correct. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.
You are lucky in this regard 🙂
None. I use HTTPS websites that protect my data.
Astrill, only VPN with a good track record in China where I happen to live.
Most others crap out after a few weeks or months, and never bother to fix their protocols.
Huh, interesting that VPNs work in China. I thought the GFW aggressively throttled encrypted connections?
Nah they identify the protocol handshake and block it altogether, so you need to find a VPN with a proprietary protocol that keeps updating.
It’s probably a modified openvpn with some package obfuscation, but works surprisingly well.
I used to use Proton, but it stopped working in the country I travel to work in, so I changed to SurfShark as it works as a region unblocker, on recommendation from other people here.
What country does Proton not work in? Their whole thing is that they let you access the internet despite government controlled ISPs.
PIA is the cheapest that supports port forwarding. But it’s not to hide from ISP, it’s mostly for content unblocking
ProtonVPN, but I’ve been thinking of switching to Mullvad or maybe PIA(because of price).
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