So IVPN is also removing port forward. Who’s next?
I moved from mullvad when they dropped port forwarding and moved to ivpn only now to find they have dropped it to.
I think I will hang fire a little while now and see how things play out before having the rug pulled again. Is there going to come a time when none them offer port forwarding?
Yup, AFAIK you do not need a port forward to torrent within the I2P network. And in addition you wouldn’t even need a VPN. The main downside is that I2P needs more people torrenting so that it’ll go faster.
There are i2p trackers and the only way for torrents to get there is by crosseeding them (from clearweb), qbitorrent on the v6.0 release will make this easier.
And you can also just upload to i2p trackers directly.
I have a feeling that this will happen to the “good” ones. I wish there was another way to seed properly without portforward.
I think you might be right. I may just end up getting a seed box of some description
The problem with seedboxes is that you’re severely limited on storage space. If more VPN providers remove port forwarding and more people move to seedboxes, we’ll see every old torrent die off as people are only going go seed the newest content. You definitely need a balance of seedboxes and people like me with a 6TB HDD used solely for permaseeding on my home connection for both fast downloads and torrent longevity.
I hoped this wouldn’t happen but saw it coming from a mile away, honestly. I think, as OP said in another comment, we’re going to see the rest of the better VPNs (an already short list - what is it now, just AirVPN and maybe Proton?) slowly take away this feature as well.
My Mullvad subscription runs out in a few days. Think I’ll be using the extra monthly $5 to upgrade my seedbox plan and ditch home seeding entirely.
I don’t even know what I’d use a VPN service without port forwarding for.
Seems like another blow and a step closer to the death of public trackers for many. For us hardcore pirates we don’t give a shit but the big corps are gonna be very happy. Many people should probably just move on to Usenet
With all the sites and release groups that have shut down recently there seems to be something big occurring. It looks like this might be the gradual shut down of open trackers chaps. IVPN was the choice for services for years; will have to see what happens from here. I felt comfortable using their service; however this changes my self hosting. Usenet from here on out? IRC? Where do we go from here?
