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.

      • Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        11 months 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.

        • Mister Bean@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I can confirm that seeding with mullvad is painfully slow, if you do torrent locally get a VPN with port forwarding.

          • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
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            11 months 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
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              11 months 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)

        • ISOmorph@feddit.deEnglish
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          11 months 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
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                11 months 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
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                  11 months 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?