Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My friend wants to know the best vpn provider with the lowest price.
Proton or Mullvad are the two go-tos.
Private Internet Access used to be trusted (and still has good service, fwiw) but they were bought out by a company that was caught stuffing adware into their programs… So people have been hesitant to actually recommend them in the wake of that.
A lot of the VPN providers were doing sales at the end of last year, but ProtonVPN is one to consider
Surfshark is something like $55 for 2 years; well worth it.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
mullvad
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If you don’t torrent.
They pussied out and removed port forwarding mid last year
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Given their other privacy features, I’m okay with it. It’s easy to get another VPN for a month and do all the torrenting you need.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
dont even need the port forwarding to torrent just get a client that supports network tunnelling.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I haven’t had a problem with it. Am I missing something?
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Torrents only work if at least one side has port forwarding enabled. And you don’t want to rely on other people having their ports open. In order to ensure you can actually connect to a seeder/peer, it’s best practice to enable port forwarding on your end.
The issue with this is that many VPN providers have stopped offering port forwarding services, because kiddy diddlers figured out a way to use port forwarding to privately share CSAM. So it has become difficult to torrent with a VPN, because pedos somehow manage to ruin everything.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Your torrents are likely not as fast as they could be then
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I second this