Comment on Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership

emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does port forwarding gain you on a VPN? Sorry if the question is ignorant

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need it for file sharing apps like BitTorrent or Soulseek, if you don’t want to be seen as a leech and/or you want to use private trackers where you need to maintain a good ratio. :)

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    • retro@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most private trackers don’t allow a shared VPN like Mullvad anyway. Some do but most don’t.

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      • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most private trackers don’t allow you to browse the tracker site from a shared VPN, but I’ve never seen one that doesn’t allow your torrent client to connect over one. That would make no sense.

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      • yote_zip@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I haven’t personally seen a private tracker that blocks your actual bittorrent announces to the tracker with a VPN, though I know a couple prevent you from browsing the site itself with one.

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    • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then you can just use a seed box on top of your downloading

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why would you use a seedbox if you have a home server? The home server can be the seedbox. A lot of homelabbers would have a good enough connection for it.

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      • HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re putting a lot of trust into these services that can just disappear one day. I’d rather rely on my own TrueNAS system, thanks.

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  • thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I’ve read you need it for Bittorrent or at least the chance of failed downloads is higher without it.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Another use case (in addition to the VPN use case) is if you want to host a site but hide your IP. You can run Nginx and configure it to listen on a port the VPN service has allocated to you. Good VPN services like AirVPN let you choose ports, and those ports are always allocated to you.

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    • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      although people hosting illegal content using port forwarding is likely one of the reasons they removed it, so its a tricky problem

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        One of the main reasons people use VPNs is for illegal content…

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• Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, unfortunately because of this decision from Mullvad, they also lost me as customer and I had to move to another.

  It kinda sucks because I loved Mullvad. They had great servers, customer service, and I do like their Android & Linux program.

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• magikmw@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did they change something? I’ve been port forwarding for a couple of years now.

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  • CrankyCarrot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mullvad.net/…/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-…

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