The Truth About VPNs: What You Need to Know (open.substack.com)
from Petersnowden@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 09:01
https://lemmy.ml/post/28927317

Which VPN to choose and why

#privacy

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PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 10:05 next collapse

I’ve used Mullvad for years, but the lack of port-forwarding is becoming a pain in the proverbial. I’d been considering OVPN, but does anyone have any experience with that, IVPN or Proton? What do you consider the better option?

kent@feddit.dk on 21 Apr 10:57 next collapse

I’ve been using OVPN with port forwarding for a couple of years, it works great for my use cases.

I haven’t used other providers, so I can’t really compare to others though.

skankhunt42@lemmy.ca on 21 Apr 14:05 collapse

Same. I’ve used OVPN for years, port forwarding seems to work as I get the green check in rutorrent. I haven’t tried others.

redrumBot@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 12:11 next collapse

IVPN removed port-forwarding two years ago.

poloqualle@feddit.org on 21 Apr 12:11 next collapse

Protons port forwarding works fine for me. I use it mainly via gluetun as a vpn layer for some docker containers.

PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 16:26 collapse

Bear with me here, as I know sweet FA about docker containers, but am I right unthinking you only really use it in your container, as opposed to running it on whole devices, or your router? What’s the advantage of that?

ftbd@feddit.org on 22 Apr 15:11 collapse

AFAIK the selling point of gluetun is that the traffic from e.g. a qbittorrent container is guaranteed to go through the VPN - this is also what one would need port forwarding for

PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works on 22 Apr 21:46 collapse

Ah, so essentially, you’re achieving a similar result to port-forwarding while still using Mullvad by the container forcing all qbittorrent’s connection to go through Mullvad. That’s actually a pretty ideal situation for me, I’d much rather keep using Mullvad if possible, I’ll have to go learn how all this works. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

ftbd@feddit.org on 22 Apr 22:52 collapse

No, your VPN provider needs to offer port forwarding for that to work. You can still use qbittorrent without port forwarding, but it’ll be harder to find peers which could lower your speeds

Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 12:22 next collapse

I’m using Mullvad at the moment as well and looking to change for the same reason. I’ve been looking at switching to AirVPN once all my credit runs out on Mullvad. They have a similar model to Mullvad, but they allow port forwarding.

EisFrei@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 13:00 next collapse

PIA is working quite well with this container.

github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Petersnowden@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 13:36 next collapse

OVPN and IVPN are both solid , you can go for either ! Proton doesn’t support port forwarding on any tier

dmention7@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 13:43 collapse

Proton VPN absolutely does support port forwarding, just not on the free tier.

leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Apr 20:32 next collapse

IVPN don’t allow port forwarding either.

I realise port forwarding is something lots of people want but the reasons are nothing to do with privacy. Mullvad remains, in my opinion, the best solution for those whose priority is privacy.

pineapple@lemmy.ml on 23 Apr 15:00 collapse

I don’t understand why so many privacy respecting vpns just lack port forwarding. It’s really frustrating and I don’t know why mullvad would remove it.

PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works on 23 Apr 20:06 next collapse

Something to do with it enabling nonces I think

[deleted] on 26 Apr 09:27 collapse

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RiQuY@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 18:49 next collapse

My recommendation: www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

PragmaticOne@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 07:05 next collapse

Only mentioning Reddit to say that r/vpn has a spreadsheet you can DL to view VPNs and lists what they offer.

aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Apr 08:08 next collapse

Windscribe Supports port-forwarding and they rank pretty well in privacy regards too but they are certainly rank a tier lower than IVPN and Mullvad. Guess it comes down to your priorities here

pineapple@lemmy.ml on 22 Apr 23:20 next collapse

They support anonymous payments, including Bitcoin

This was talking about protonvpn Bitcoin is not at all anonymous all transactions are completely public for everyone to view.

surph_ninja@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 23:56 collapse

The issue is also that they’re all either run by Israel or intelligence agencies, or they comply with their backdoor access to everything.

If it was actually a good, private vpn free from government spying, the governments would shut it down.