when you use port forwarding, you’re opening yourself up to a lot of malicious activity. Someone could maliciously plant some CP on your hard drive if you have port forwarding enabled.
A lot of people still don’t and they use public wifi too. And some people with VPNs are using shitty ones like nord, express or Private internet access or surfshark
Surfshark and nord are owned by the same company and express and PIA are owned by the same company. So PIA isn’t trustworthy anymore, their court proven no-logs policy isn’t valid anymore because they got bought out since then.
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Proton VPN with port forwarding turned off…Or Mullvad with quantum secure encryption…whichever you want.
Why port forwarding off specifically?
when you use port forwarding, you’re opening yourself up to a lot of malicious activity. Someone could maliciously plant some CP on your hard drive if you have port forwarding enabled.
Port forwarding allows unsolicited connections through the NAT firewall on specific ports, making it possible for devices on the internet to initiate connections and access services on a local device . Basically by turning off port forwarding you improve your privacy and network security at the cost of lower torrenting speed and no remote access.
But my nicotine+ connection…
Huh, how the hell does turning off port forwarding improve privacy? I am so confused, security yes but privacy.
You’re preventing incoming connections that could snoop around your network. I’d say it’s linked both to privacy and security.
Yeah, doesn’t everyone use a VPN in some form by now?
A lot of people still don’t and they use public wifi too. And some people with VPNs are using shitty ones like nord, express or Private internet access or surfshark
Surfshark and nord are owned by the same company and express and PIA are owned by the same company. So PIA isn’t trustworthy anymore, their court proven no-logs policy isn’t valid anymore because they got bought out since then.
Reddit is already blocking some Proton VPN IPs…
I haven’t had that problem when I use proton. Try using secure core with the browser extension.