Since IVPN and Mullvad are both phasing out port forwarding, are there any alternatives? I am not looking for something like NordVPN which is a privacy nightmare. AirVPN is also not private enough considering I’ve seen reports online of ISPs sending out DMCA letters of gold to its users.
Some people here are saying i2p may be the future https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/259433 Sounds like Qbittorrent is planning to provide i2p support too. So hopefully port forwarding won’t matter as much for future releases.
The main issue with I have with how the current i2p implementation works is that it essentially creates a walled garden in the torrent network, as i2p users can’t seed out to non-i2p users, they can only leech from them. I feel like that would needlessly split the network, which relies on having as many people as possible seeding. Frankly I don’t know if its even possible to work around that, but I’ll need to see how it plays out. Also, there needs to be at least one person with a port forwarded on any given torrent. utp only peers cannot seed independently, from my understanding.
I think i2p or something similar where people can run a router and provide bandwidth to the network and help hide what other users are downloading (which is how i2p works but its not super fast sadly)
I don’t have much familiarity with i2p, but is it possible for private trackers to switch to i2p all at once and alleviate this problem? With public torrents you have to rely on the masses to shuffle to i2p, but with a private tracker it’s a lot easier to just tell your users “hey we’re using this now.”
Would a real i2p switch cause any notable downsides? I see people mentioning slower speeds but I’m not sure if they’re conflating inherent protocol slowness with smaller swarm sizes during initial adoption.
Does anyone have any recommended resources on this topic?