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Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars (www.ivpn.net)

submitted 7 months ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It is something to always take into consideration and not forget.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I love Mullvad and recommend them for everything other than torrenting. Once they disabled port forwarding I moved to AirVPN who seem to be pretty legit.

I'm not trying to keep my ratios up but I have a few torrents of media that are not available anywhere for sale and have less than 10 seeds, so I feel like I am helping keep the shows and movies of my childhood alive.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They did have a server seized (physically) in 2015: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6754830
Though apparently there were no logs.

Interestingly though, that forum post was now deleted from AirVPN site. Strange...

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Hmm, TIL, thanks.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago

Good person. Much like I would like to do. I'd be happy with a VPN for personal use and another one for torrenting (gluetun compatible preferably) Shall look at AirVPN, thanks.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just switched to Mullvad and haven't tried torrenting with it yet... Doesn't work? Or just slow?

[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

yes, but you can only download from peers with port forwarding enabled, and you can also only upload to port forwarding peers, so generally its fine for downloading, but if you want to keep ratio (uploading) on a private tracker you need port forwarding