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Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (16 children)

My friend wants to know the best vpn provider with the lowest price.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    mullvad

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    If you don't torrent.

    They pussied out and removed port forwarding mid last year to have more "legitimacy."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    I haven't had a problem with it. Am I missing something?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Torrents only work if at least one side has port forwarding enabled. And you don’t want to rely on other people having their ports open. In order to ensure you can actually connect to a seeder/peer, it’s best practice to enable port forwarding on your end.

    The issue with this is that many VPN providers have stopped offering port forwarding services, because kiddy diddlers figured out a way to use port forwarding to privately share CSAM. So it has become difficult to torrent with a VPN, because pedos somehow manage to ruin everything.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I may have to look into a new VPN provider. What provider would you recommend that isn't sus? Thank you!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s part of the issue; All of the “best” VPNs have stopped offering port forwarding. Mullvad and Proton are the gold standard for VPNs, but neither offer port forwarding. Private Internet Access still offers it, but they were bought out by a marketing company that was caught sneaking adware into their programs. PIA’s service is still good, but it relies on you trusting an ad company with your internet traffic. They claim to not save any logs or use your data, but they’ve also been found to be liars in the past with that adware scandal.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Proton or Mullvad are the two go-tos.

    Private Internet Access used to be trusted (and still has good service, fwiw) but they were bought out by a company that was caught stuffing adware into their programs… So people have been hesitant to actually recommend them in the wake of that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of the VPN providers were doing sales at the end of last year, but ProtonVPN is one to consider

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Yup, try out ProtonVPN's free tier.

    I prefer Mullvad, though ProtonVPN is competitive if you get one of their longer-term offers ($5/month). Mullvad is always $5/month, has plenty of servers, and IMO is the best for privacy (you can literally pay by mailing cash or w/ Monero and other cryptocurrencies as well). If you want to support Mozilla, you can buy Mozilla VPN, which is just rebranded Mullvad (though you'll need a yearly subscription to match Mullvad's regular cost).

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