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.

  • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    The same 3 VPNs get recommended each time this question is asked:

    • Mullvad
    • Proton
    • IVPN
        • Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          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.

            • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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”

              • Mister Bean@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                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)

          • L26@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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

            • Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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.

          • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
            43·
            1 year ago

            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.

                • reddithalation@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  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.

                  • C4RP3_N0CT3M@kbin.social
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    My question is, why do you need to be part of a private tracker? What’s the benefit beyond privacy, privacy which Mullvad will give you. Just go to the common public trackers; who cares if they’re tracking your fake info?

          • Cannizzaro@feddit.chEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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

    • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ThoGot@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        What is the advantage of port-forwarding? I use Mullvad and don’t know if I’m missing some critical feature

      • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Port-forwarding isn’t essential for torrenting. It really depends on the user as to whether that’s an important feature.

    • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      So two that don’t offer port forwarding and one that only does on Windows? Wow what a great recommendation…