I wanted to do some soulseek, but just as I began moving towards that this happened. What VPN should I use for this ? I don’t want to use any of those over advertised shady VPNs like nordvpn (who was a spamming machine on my PC back when I used it) or surfshark or others if not necessary…

  • ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    141·
    3 years ago

    honestly you are going to be fine with most VPN providers. Unless you are one of the members of the very big scene groups, you are just seeding and your threat model is just to mask your connections from your ISP.

    I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it’s a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding, is transparent about legal requests and have a history of support with the piratebay. On top of that paypal denied payments to them for a period, and that is usually a good sign

  • bruchsturm@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    81·
    3 years ago

    I’m a bit confused. Using mullvad and I’m still seeding fine.

    Could anyone explain why I need portforwarding?

    Using mullvad wireguard and qbittorrent

    Seeding with ~1Mbit right now, which is normal for my connection

    Edit: thought soulseek is some torrent slang or client, I’m an idiot ^^

  • Dirk Darkly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been an avid user of Windscribe for years. Works great and has great customer support. From what I can tell they also respect your privacy.

  • partizan@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Not sure how tech savvy are you, but you can get any VPS with public IP anywhere in the world, you can spin up a simple docker container and create a wireguard tunnel, for example https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy after that a simple port forward and you are good to go… or just connect other devices to the same network, and have them communicate through your own VPN between each other…

    Any reputable VPS provider will not spy on your systems, so its even more secure than any VPN you can get. And if you need another IP/exit location, copy the folder with your docker compose file, shutdown one VPS, start another in different location, run one command to install docker, copy the directory and start it up.

  • nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    211·
    3 years ago

    would NOT recommend protonvpn since it’s the same company running protonmail, which has a history of bad security and has given private mails to governments. plus their free plan is pretty bad and doesn’t have port forwarding. but it’s an unpopular opinion ig.

    anyways, i’ve been using airvpn and it’s been fairly good. some other ones include:

    • windscribe
    • torguard
    • cryptostorm
    • Mac@federation.redEnglish
      191·
      3 years ago

      The problem is you say all that then recommend PIA. Another company known for being shady af. Proton ultimately is still under Europol laws but they have an onion site and you can pay in crypto

      • KingSlareXIV@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        I’d like to see your sources on that statement.

        PIA has literally gone to US federal court at least twice, and prevailed both times proving they had no logs to share with authorities.

        PIA has an actual track record of privacy protection success, which is something few other VPN providers have.

      • nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        I didn’t know about PIA and never “recommended.” I just listed a few other services that I knew had port forwarding. I removed it from the comment.

    • Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.mlMEnglish
      11·
      3 years ago

      💀 Source for them giving private emails to governments ?? Your emails are E2EE they don’t have the ability to decrypt them when you hold the keys. The most they did AFAIK is IP log a user because they had to comply with swiss law. Their VPN has no logs & has been audited