• TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Pedos, COVID, war et al is an excuse. After the recent raid, I believe that to avoid becoming a honeypot, they cut off the most risky source of activities - P2P torrenting. My basis of this claim are three things – torrent traffic is colossal, and torrents are mostly used for piracy (Mullvad evading DMCA issues) and ProtonVPN free tier does the exact same thing with banning P2P torrenting.

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          1 year ago

          Do you know a not sus VPN that supports p2p torrenting? I 🏴‍☠️ tens of games a month and recently our fascist government just passed a draconian anti piracy law, what VPN should I look to?

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            1 year ago

            There are only 4 left, with each having various degrees of issues.

            • AirVPN: the only one with multiple ports for forwarding, but no logging policy is an issue
            • IVPN: the strongest VPN option but with only 1 port for forwarding
            • ProtonVPN: good option overall but no anonymous payment option
            • Windscribe: good option but with limited port forwarding and an unfortunate incident in 2019 (no customer data was compromised though)

            All I want to say is we have limited time as pirates unless an underground net is established that is not leech-y like private trackers are. Give or take, less than two years, being optimistic as a small scale data curator/hoarder.

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                1 year ago

                Mullvad has stopped providing port forwarding, which means torrenting can leak IP often enough to endanger users.

                Edit: I made a minor mistake in a hurry, port forwarding affects torrenting in that you connect to less seeds/peers, although you could still bind it to your torrent client.

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                  1 year ago

                  Can you explain a bit more, if you don’t mind? From what I’ve read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don’t see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I’ve never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I’m just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I’m not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.

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                1 year ago

                Not sure, I have data hoarded so many things which I can stick to, combined with Russian pirate portals and good ol VirusTotal and KVRT offline scans. Usenet is way down the consideration list.