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.
I saw someone say that Proton implemented their port forwarding in a different way than Mullvad that negates a lot of the issues that caused them to axe it
Hi, I looked into this and from what I can gather, ProtonVPN gives out temporary ports for port forwarding. I’m not 100% how long these ports are leased for, but as long as you run a script like this to move your torrent client’s port around to match ProtonVPN’s, I can see how this would work. It’s not perfect, but it’s workable. I wonder if Mullvad will implement something like this to achieve parity.
Yeah that sounds right. I use Proton and the ports are randomly assigned when you connect. I just manually put the port in qbittorrent each time, it’s not too much trouble.
I’m very interested in reading about that if you remember where you saw it. If true, it makes me wonder why Mullvad/IVPN couldn’t go that route?