Comment on Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership

• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • mara@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Generally when you download files over torrent through your ISP, you end up getting love letters from rightsholders. I personally use a homelab NAS as my seedbox and for my public tracker stuff (as well as anime downloads over XDCC) I use Mullvad. I don’t seed overly much on public trackers because of it, but my ratio on private trackers is sky high because ISPs won’t send love letters for private trackers.

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      • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It can still ruin your ping when downloading.

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    • HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        sure illegal content can be accessed over a vpn without port forwarding, but when someone hosting a child porn site over a mullvad ip, that is clearly a larger problem

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