opinions on hide.me free VPN? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello! I recently set up my first home server, and would like to set up qbittorrent on it. I tried using protonVPN, which is what I use on desktop, but got rate limited because torrenting on the free plan is not allowed. What do you think of hide.me vpn? it has a CLI linux version, I think I can install it inside the docker container and set up a killswitch (that should be built in? at least that's what they say) to torrent safely.

I know paid VPNs are better and also pretty cheap, but I cannot afford one right now. Any tips?

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

Just go with mullvad, so far it is the only VPN I know of that allows you to pay with physical currency with zero papertrail back to you.

Mullvad.net

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 years ago

I wish I could afford it...

[-] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Didn't Mullvad ban torrenting?~~

edit: looked it up, looks like they didn't. Can't remember what I read that said they did.

[-] safesyrup@feddit.ch 15 points 2 years ago

I think they disabled port forwarding makin torrenting more difficult, don‘t quote me on that though

[-] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yeah, that sounds about right.

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