I’m mainly only using it for p2p, everything else is secondary. Portforwarding is necessary though.

Edit: Decided on AirVPN. It wasn’t too pricy, only 2 dollars above my current Usenet + Indexer plan.

    • Ado@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      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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        2 years ago

        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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          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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            2 years ago

            If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service

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              2 years ago

              Absolutely, just a shame the few people who abused it, ruined it for everyone else