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The best VPN services | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
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[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding, making it completely useless for torrenting which is my main use case.

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find this interesting because I use Mozilla VPN, which is just rebranded Mullvad, and qBittorrent works just fine on it.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can torrent without portforwarding. The only issue is on rare Linux isos. You potentially will have trouble discovering new peers. At least one person will need portforwarding.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really? I was planning to switch to Mullvad.

[–] Lord_Boffum@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to leave MV because of this. I went to Proton, though I did need special software to support its form of port forwarding without introducing a regular hassle. All good now, mostly.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was looking at Proton too but I'm already a customer and the VPN is going to be shared with family members. I worries if they can access my mail if I share my account.

[–] Lord_Boffum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can get around this by generating the files for OpenVPN or Wireguard for them and sending those.