Which VPN to choose and why

  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    They support anonymous payments, including Bitcoin

    This was talking about protonvpn Bitcoin is not at all anonymous all transactions are completely public for everyone to view.

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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    30 days ago

    I’ve used Mullvad for years, but the lack of port-forwarding is becoming a pain in the proverbial. I’d been considering OVPN, but does anyone have any experience with that, IVPN or Proton? What do you consider the better option?

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      30 days ago

      Protons port forwarding works fine for me. I use it mainly via gluetun as a vpn layer for some docker containers.

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        30 days ago

        Bear with me here, as I know sweet FA about docker containers, but am I right unthinking you only really use it in your container, as opposed to running it on whole devices, or your router? What’s the advantage of that?

        • ftbd@feddit.org
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          29 days ago

          AFAIK the selling point of gluetun is that the traffic from e.g. a qbittorrent container is guaranteed to go through the VPN - this is also what one would need port forwarding for

    • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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      28 days ago

      I don’t understand why so many privacy respecting vpns just lack port forwarding. It’s really frustrating and I don’t know why mullvad would remove it.