Piracy

[–] fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

It's pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn't allows P2P/torrential.

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[–] ThatGuy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.

[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I’ve had mullvad for years but never forwarded a port. What’s the use case? Like if a game won’t connect properly or something? Just curious what I’m missing out on

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[–] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.

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[–] FuryFaceofDoom@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago

Nah, they're shutting off port-forwarding because there were probably a bunch of users abusing the service and using it to distribute CSAM, and they got tired of having law enforcement at their door. Port-forwarding itself isn't inherently bad, but when it's used for that purpose it is.

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[–] PzkM@lemmygrad.ml 1 point 3 years ago

I've been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I'd recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 years ago

Can't access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of "lack of recent activity", whatever the hell that means.