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Mullvad
mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
The reason they disabled this was it was a possible privacy leak. This means if you are using a VPN that enables port forwarding, you might be at risk.
well yeah forwarding your VPN’s ports is a possible leak… that’s the point of opening the ports?
i think it’s only a privacy risk if you don’t understand the network stack and don’t understand what using port forwarding on a VPN entails so that you can take proper precautions.
regardless, it’s fair that most users would be at risk just wantonly fucking with settings they don’t understand. probably not a valid justification to limit services but i can see the business rationale.
anyway not disagreeing with you or anything i had just read the mullvad team disabled port forwarding because they were experiencing distress/PTSD dealing with the administrative and legal issues that arose due to the way some of their user base chose to use the service, and they decided removing port forwarding would be a reasonable way to target and cut down this type of traffic without affecting most users. privacy leaks might have been mentioned somewhere but ig i just hadn’t seen it. not exactly a mullvad expert, myself lol.
i dont use VPN services like mullvad anymore, though. don’t really trust the big VPN companies and prefer running my own hardware and nodes.