Comment on Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership
dan@upvote.au 1 year agoAnother 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.
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
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
One of the main reasons people use VPNs is for illegal content…
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
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, I assume the kind of people that runs a VPN doesn’t mind copyright infringement that much, but any sane person wouldn’t like to contribute to the distribution of CSAM even if they are legally not doing anything wrong.