Since IVPN and Mullvad are both phasing out port forwarding, are there any alternatives? I am not looking for something like NordVPN which is a privacy nightmare. AirVPN is also not private enough considering I’ve seen reports online of ISPs sending out DMCA letters of gold to its users.

@eximo@lemmy.ml
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I moved from mullvad to ivpn and now again on the lookout. I guess i2p is “the future” but right now I’m not sure how that works with private trackers.

Whilst you can still torrent without port forwarding I don’t think seeding works right?

@ninchuka@lemmy.one
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maybe have ID you can put into a client to send when your downloading? or maybe just private trackers fade away out of relevancy?

There are other alternatives, mainly Blackhat/scene VPNs which have server raids multiple times because of very illegal shit being done by the users, which I doubt will remove port-forwarding simply because of DMCA lol…

Seeding still works without port forwarding but uploading your owns torrents is not possible

@eximo@lemmy.ml
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Good to know. I am on a private tracker that requires it so will test proton vpn. If they remove it then I guess I just leave the tracker. 🙁

@Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Which one is that? Any I have seen just requires to seed with no mention of port forwarding.

@CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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Without port forwarding your tracker will show you as disconnected and not give you credit.

LiamBox
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Can’t the private tracker group just tell you what VPN to use?

@toxictenement@lemmy.ml
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You also can’t be the only seeder on a torrent for the same reason.

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