Which VPN to choose and why
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.
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?
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.
Something to do with it enabling nonces I think
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IVPN removed port-forwarding two years ago.
I’ve been using OVPN with port forwarding for a couple of years, it works great for my use cases.
I haven’t used other providers, so I can’t really compare to others though.
Same. I’ve used OVPN for years, port forwarding seems to work as I get the green check in rutorrent. I haven’t tried others.
OVPN and IVPN are both solid , you can go for either ! Proton doesn’t support port forwarding on any tier
Proton VPN absolutely does support port forwarding, just not on the free tier.
I’m using Mullvad at the moment as well and looking to change for the same reason. I’ve been looking at switching to AirVPN once all my credit runs out on Mullvad. They have a similar model to Mullvad, but they allow port forwarding.
PIA is working quite well with this container.
IVPN don’t allow port forwarding either.
I realise port forwarding is something lots of people want but the reasons are nothing to do with privacy. Mullvad remains, in my opinion, the best solution for those whose priority is privacy.
Windscribe Supports port-forwarding and they rank pretty well in privacy regards too but they are certainly rank a tier lower than IVPN and Mullvad. Guess it comes down to your priorities here
Only mentioning Reddit to say that r/vpn has a spreadsheet you can DL to view VPNs and lists what they offer.
My recommendation: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
The issue is also that they’re all either run by Israel or intelligence agencies, or they comply with their backdoor access to everything.
If it was actually a good, private vpn free from government spying, the governments would shut it down.
