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Also what's the safest/cheapest/possible free(?) VPN you can use to torrent? Thinking about doing that as Direct Download, while nice and more safe, can definitely be time consuming
I'd rather pay for a decent Usenet backbone and use exclusively SSL downloads than rely on a VPN with torrents.
You don't want a free VPN. I'd cough up for Mullvad if I was going that route.
Mullvad got rid of port-forwarding so it's not good for torrenting anymore. IVPN, which is where the Mullvad refugees fled to, just got rid of it as well. I think AirVPN is the next option people are flocking to, but who knows when they'll do that next.
I've also seen stuff about torrenting over I2P which shouldn't have this limitation, but I'm not sure how usable it is right this moment.
Why do I need port-forwarding for torrents?
Torrenting happily on Mullvad right now.
For peers to connect to each other, at least one of the two connecting needs to be port-forwarded, so if everyone were on Mullvad, now no one would be able to reach each other. Right now you can still torrent on Mullvad, but only with (non-Mullvad) users who use port-forwarding.
Mullvad is great
Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I've had minimal issues with it.
Why would you need a free VPN? They are so cheap, and the safety and security and features that comes with a paid subscription is more than worth the very small yearly cost.
I'm more interested in paying for a VPN that isn't a subscription. Are there any good options?
Mullvad VPN
You prepay for it using digital currency, it's superfast, you can use it on all of your devices, you're spoiled for choice on how to use it, and there's a ton of options for location.
Without a doubt it's the best pay VPN that I've ever used
I switched to Mullvad after PIA got bought by that spyware company.
They're great.
Not sure what you want here. A VPN which you can cancel each month? I just pay the Mullvad people some money in advance and get x months of VPN for it. Is that a subscription?
Proton VPN has been good to me so far.
There isint. This is your moment, do you take the plunge and buy a vpn, sign your soul to a pirates life?
100 years before the mast!
soul signing it is matey. Yarr