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What are good alternatives since Mullvad and IVPN disabled their portforwarding? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 years ago by noodles@lemmy.zip to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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[–] Einstein@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

See the other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/312389

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[–] Einstein@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago

Thank you!

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[–] noodles@lemmy.zip [S] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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.)

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[–] Hazzardis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (2 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

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[–] noodles@lemmy.zip [S] 3 points 3 years 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

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[–] noodles@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 3 years 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

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