I don’t live in the US, so my ISP doesn’t really seem to care what I torrent, but the megathread vehemently recommends to always use one. Since VPNs aren’t cheap and I’m on a strict budget (wouldn’t pirate otherwise), is it really that dangerous to torrent without one?

  • alphafalcon@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Mullvad stopped providing port forwards, so they’re not ideal for torrenting anymore. They were great before.

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      1 year ago

      But barely anyone else provides it too. Proton has it kind of but the amount of servers are restricted so yeah great higher ping/slower speeds depending on where you are from