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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Proton with paid plans supports it or Windscribe.

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

    Note that Proton only supports it on Windows.

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

    Their app only supports it on Windows, but you can configure it with OpenVPN and Wireguard.

    https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding-manual-setup/

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not a big fan of proton since you can't have a dedicated password for the VPN. I'll look into Windscribe, thank you.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Windscribe is fantastic. Been using them for years without issues. Support is great and I believe they've been proven to not scrape data on their customers (obviously verify independently if that's important to you).

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

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

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  • [–] [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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  • [–] 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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    I had no idea but it looks like I’m going to have to reconfigure my stack again 😒

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

    Just switched to AirVPN. All works well.

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

    I think you can even port forward with the free plan of ProtonVPN.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    cryptostorm, perfect-privacy, njalla, airvpn, protonvpn, windscribe. there's alot.

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

    perfect-privacy requires PF to be set every 7 days. otherwise it’s good.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Jesus what a pain in the ass. I get that there are limited ports but that would drive me up the wall pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    You have the option to auto-renew them. No downsides here imo.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The explanation of auto-renew says: "On expiration, new port forwardings will be created. The source port will be chosen randomly.". How will that work with bt client?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Not too sure. Right now I have a 1-to-1 forwarding which will expire later tonight and I have the auto-renew on. I will let you know if the port switches up or not.

    Edit: I would not recommend Perfect-Privacy, their autorenew does not work.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    How do proxies work with port forwarding? Are proxies an option? No matter what I will use a VPN at all times but by using a proxy in your bittorrent client, could you get "port forwarding" functionality?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Been using windscribe custom plan (2$USD/m) for years. Great apps (all are foss i think), great support (linux/android/windows/iot). I believe they have good privacy practices.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Here is a list of VPN services that accept crypto payments (a good proxy for being privacy friendly) https://kycnot.me/services#VPN

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