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In search for a good VPN (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andylicious1337@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi privacy fans :) I've been a lurker in this lemmy-community for a while now and a "fan" of privacy for about 4 years now. Since 4 years, I've been on and of with VPNs. Sometimes I think I dont need one, sometimes I change my mind and start searching for one. The only one I tested (and used) so far, was Mullvad. But now reading about Surfshark, I was wondering, if there might be a better solution or if Mullvad is already the best solution for VPN. What I dont like about Surfshark is, that it is part of North Security and that it is not open-source (or at least I can find any info about that).

I hope you guy and gals have some suggestions or recommendation :)

Edit: wow... thanks for all of your fast replies. Coming from Reddit, I am used to only shitposting. Thanks for all your input. I will look into all the mentioned VPN hosters, thx 👍

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hijacking this thread with a related question: I'm stuck on Mullvad, any good ones that let you port forward from linux? I'd like to use slsk more effectively once again.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Protonvpn lets you port forward. I use docker and have a gluetun container that connects to protonvpn, all of my other docker containers for sailing the high seas (arr suite, qbittorrent, sabnzbd, soulseek client, etc) are routed through it and I have port forwarding setup to the ones that need it. For soulseek I use nicotine-plus-docker, all traffic is routed through the gluetun container, the port is forwarded, and a bit shy of 700 gb uploaded since March so I can confirm it works well.

I don't think the protonvpn Linux client supports port forwarding yet so only docker things can do it right now afaik, but anything I want permanently through VPN runs in docker anyway

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info!

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

On an extra note, I actually switched to slskd (since writing that comment earlier today)because the nicotine app bugs me sometimes (it's just the app ran in a VM), so far I like it