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.
ProtonVPN’s port forwarding works different than Mullvad (and IVPN) though. You don’t get a static port, it’s randomly assigned and can periodically change. Also not all of ProtonVPN’s endpoints support port forward (most notably none of the US ones do). This sort of mitigates the problem since it’s difficult to host a site through the VPN since you’d have to always be telling people your new port whenever it changes. This is fine for torrent use though, if you’re using a client like deluge where you can inform the client of a new port through the API when it changes.