Ever since the whole port-forwarding purge, I’ve been hopping around VPNs for torrenting. My options are trying out Airvpn, using Protonvpn, or going back to Mullvad. I saw that Airvpn doesn’t have any evidence for their no-log policy, is it still something to worry about? I think I rather use Airvpn than Proton due to pricing and a bad experience with Protonvpn in the past, I just want to make sure it is safe.
Nothing is 100% safe. This is one of those times to take it on faith that they are doing what they say. As one of the only highly talked about VPN’s that still has port forwarding I’m willing to take the chance. My torrenting isn’t something police worthy so I wager than it will accomplish my task just fine. But who knows, that may all change at any time. Buy low volume of time just in case.
My understanding is that if your torrenting is just at the level of copyright violations / “piracy” of movies and tv, etc, for personal use, logs aren’t too much of a risk …the primary thing you’re trying to avoid is copyright holders identifying you and sending notices to your ISP, and a VPN blocks them from being able to identify you, and they’re not going to be able to force the VPN provider to turn over logs without police or courts getting involved.
The risk regarding the logs is if the police or the courts force the vpn provider to turn them over…and this would only be the case if your torrent activity or other online activity rises to a level of being criminal or warranting law enforcement action. And most personal torrenting activity is not going to rise to that level.
Can someone with more knowledge confirm or correct this?
Why do I have a feeling this is going to be a game of whack-a-mole, where everybody moves from one company to another and they all shut down port forwarding?
Pretty much. It’s also worth mentioning that if one of the three-letter agencies already has you under their microscope for worse things, a vpn is not going to keep you from being party van’d.
This is what I’m trying to understand as well… I guess my potentially naive view is/was this subreddit is for people who want to share pirated stuff. In the isolated case of using a VPN solely for piracy, is the sub’s selection criteria slightly over the top?
Any VPN that says it has a no log policy, allows you to pay via multiple ways, and has port forwarding, should be ok…?
didn’t pay my protonvpn subscription (i was broke lol) and got locked out of my entire proton acc (including protonmail), and charged late fees, if ur gonna be able to pay it, ur probably gonna be fine
It’s possible. I would think that they would want to stretch out that period of inrush as long as possible though. I would imagine more people are avoiding the longer term subscriptions because of that fear.
Late fees for a VPN or email service is wild and predatory. They pretend they’re so consumer-friendly too
It didn’t make me leave mullvad because I’m able to get enough connections and torrenting isn’t my life anyway. I’ve been on usenet for more than 20 years and it’s still the best, but it’s not for novices and it isn’t free.
yea im never paying for any of proton’s services again lol fuck that