Hello all!
I have been out of the piracy game since a little before mullvad lost port-forwarding; I know these things are ever changing, and to my understanding ivpn is a good bet at this moment in time.
I was wondering what everyone else has been using. As well as if anyone has tried the gui client for ivpn either built from source or the AUR build(I do use arch btw).
I am open to any vpn client that has a good reputation in the community, and build-able from a repository; A gui is preferred but not necessary, and absolutely NO account creation (Except for generic account numbers of course).
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer.
Torguard has worked well for me
ivpn cuz you can pay with Monero
Can I piggy back on this and ask why NordVPN isn’t as highly recommended?
Some of the things I have written down, are mostly old so if anything is missing or needs correction, please let me know:
They have shady origins, no one knows who they are or where they came from, but they did it with enough funds to quickly expand a large worldwide network of servers and an endless aggressive advertising campaign everywhere.
Misleading advertising, from saying they are the best in the world to adding countdowns to get an offer that restarts when clearing cookies.
They were hacked and tried to hide it for a very, very long time.
Their app on mac pings google every 20 seconds. The android app is riddled with trackers. They use a myriad of integrated google services.
They do not offer open source or audited apps.
If you cancel the auto-renewal of the service, you lose many secondary services and they charge you weeks before the end of the subscription.
In short, they are the kind of company that screams that they don’t deserve anyone’s trust, and that’s a big problem for a VPN. I suggest mullvad, they have a long history of good practices, are privacy activists and are backed by companies like mozilla.
Also besides them being extremely shady; I refuse to use any VPN that makes me create an account past a generic account number. If you don’t log my data, why do you need me to sign up?
Mullvad even accepts an envelope of cash as payment. It’s the only reputable VPN
ProtonVPN is quite reputable TBF.
Started off at CERN if I have my info correct (the guys behind the word wide web for example, researchers) with Proton mail.
Thank you so much; your response was very helpful. I guess I’m canceling my Nord sub now…
Another mullvad recommendation usually don’t trust any provider if they can afford and want to do advertisement all over the place. Mullvad let’s you pay in coins if you want to be super ghost
Oh yeah. I’ve used them for a couple years, I’ve just been out of the circle for 4-5 months. I also know things can change in the snap of a finger, so I figured I’d ask around. Good to see mullvad is still so highly recommended.
Airvpn. I’ve been using it for years with no problem.
Same here. They have an open source graphical client you can use or they can generate an OpenVPN profile for you. Easy to use, high speeds, good price and they support port forwarding.
Same here but do find they are blocked a bit more than other vpn providers. But will keep using them due to good speeds and easy config.
These are some pretty good Vegan Pasta Noodles:
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I’m currently using AirVPN and even tough the website looks like a really old forum it’s a fast and cheap VPN with port forwarding.
Astrill.
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Doing so gives you a unique IP so you lose out on a lot of privacy.
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Won’t your VPS promptly be canceled if it starts distributing copyrighted content without a license?
Tor Browser. Be safe.
No, you should absolutely not abuse Tor for filesharing, especially not for torrents or other large P2P downloads.
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Holy shit, thank you for that information; I will definitely ensure I use a client with those vulnerabilities patched!
Proton vpn is great, has a free tier as well. (Proton is a privacy-focused company so you can probably trust them)
Free tier doesn’t support p2p, should be noted
Oh, I didn’t realise this, thanks
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The same 3 VPNs get recommended each time this question is asked:
- Mullvad
- Proton
- IVPN
+1 for Mullvad
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Sorry to spam the instance with a FAQ. I may of been misinformed, I was under the impression it was difficult to seed easily with Mullvad now. Also I was curious if anyone had recommendations with good Linux clients, not just the service itself; It seems IVPN or Mullvad will be the best all around option for me, if I do go the VPN route.
IVPN and mullvad are recommended but since they no longer allow port forwarding they are slow. There’s Private Internet Access which is no logs provider too
I can confirm that seeding with mullvad is painfully slow, if you do torrent locally get a VPN with port forwarding.
What does port forwarding do in this case? A lot of ppl are mentioning it… “And at this point I’m too afraid to ask”
Honestly same, I just know that the speeds were better when the port forwarding worked.
I think it just makes the service visible to devices from outside the network which helps them form a more direct connection. (That’s just an educated guess though)
Use real debrid to download torrents.
Mullvad doesn’t have port forwarding anymore. As long as you don’t want to leech top secret dark net torrents that only 3 people have in the world, you’re absolutely fine.
or use any private trackers at all lol
If you’re on a VPN, why would it matter, genuinely curious?
Private trackers are based on seeding back what you leech, and if you can’t port forward it is far far harder to do that, and so you may get banned of your ratio of downloaded to uploaded gets too low.
I only read the title and love Mullvad but for torrenting I’d absolutely recommend a seedbox instead. Some ones I can recommend are Whatbox.ca if you’re in North America or Seedhost if you’re in the EU. Feralhosting isn’t bad either specially for the price.
I started with Feralhosting but decided I wanted to try racing and bought a custom tuned server. Then I realized I didn’t want to pay $100 a month and switched to Chmuranet (sp?) and didn’t like how they treated their customers. Then I tried Seedhost which was great but the peering to North America wasn’t ideal. Finally I ended up with Whatbox and I’ve been happy with them ever since.
What would stop one of these sites from removing copywrited content and / or informing the owner?
Seems risky putting seeding in someone else’s hands
They ignore complaints, just like trustworthy VPN do.
Thanks for the information, I will definitely look into those! I used to use Mullvad for torrenting for a number of years, the Linux client worked very well, no leaks, and the Killswitch was effective through manual testing.
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No more port forwarding though
Only Proton should be recommended for torrenting since it has port-forwarding. I don’t know why people love suggesting these even without port-forwarding.
Port-forwarding isn’t essential for torrenting. It really depends on the user as to whether that’s an important feature.
Because most people aren’t tech savvy enough or have the need for port forwarding.
What is the advantage of port-forwarding? I use Mullvad and don’t know if I’m missing some critical feature
So two that don’t offer port forwarding and one that only does on Windows? Wow what a great recommendation…
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If only there was a way to make wireguard or openvpn work with linux…
Damn you windows!
Mysterium looks pretty interesting, being completely decentralized. All the mainstream VPNs are pretty shady to me, being run in a centralized manner and some heavily marketed by “influencers”.
Isn’t that just tor but less secure?
https://safing.io/ is ToR but less secure.
I tried learning about mysterium and it appears to be just a bunch of wire guard vpns in a network you can pay with Myst tokens. So no onion routing at all.
It’s more like anonymously connecting to someone else’s wi-fi.
