So IVPN is also removing port forward. Who’s next?
Damn IVPN has always been a solid provider. No public missteps and supported XMR earlier than all (reputable) others including mullvad.
Time to switch to i2p and usenet at least until the next p2p protocol comes about.
I don’t even know what I’d use a VPN service without port forwarding for.
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?
Can someone enlighten me to why people are port forwarding? Just wondering what everyone is doing that different from me.
Windscribe supports ephemeral port forwarding on its paid plans and permanent port forwarding on its static IP plans. They have a 44% off sale currently.
The product description is a bit awkward:
No Identifying Logs We can’t personally identify you based on IP and timestamp
This is why they go to your provider and asking whom this IP belongs to. They basically sey that they log your stuff
I don’t understand. Are you talking about the static IPs? They are not dedicated. They are still shared, so Windscribe cannot pinpoint individual users on them.
Yeah that’s the point, it’s just that authorities can go to them and ask for an IP and timestamp, then go with that info to your ISP asking for the person the IP was assigned at that time.
