My subrsiption with surfshark is ending soon and I was wondering if there was something better around the same price. There are a lot of ads about many VPNs but a lot of them don’t look so “safe and private” as they want you to think so it’s hard to really figure it out. I don’t want to spend too much since I don’t use them very often but I kinda like the “change catalog of netflix” thing and to be safe while doing some “”“”“”“shady”“”“”" stuff

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      I believe it does have an issue surrounding their disabling port forwarding, which becomes problematic if you try to torrent, or so I understood.

      They are A+ on privacy and transparency, that being said.

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        They have recently removed support for port forwarding. That won’t stop a user being able to torrent but it will stop seeding and will affect discoverability and speed somewhat.

        Has no negative impact on their privacy features

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          Thanks for the correction and adding more information! I’ve considered using it, hence my quick search and vague information about it.

          Not being able to seed is a bit of a deal-breaker for me, but that’ll depend from one person to the other.

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      1 year ago

      Another vote for Mullvad. You can pay by cash, vouchers (in some countries) or Monero for total privacy.

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        1 year ago

        I wonder how many chickens it would take to mail them for a month of service

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      When I went on a torrenting spree, I trusted Mullvad enough to pay with my real name PayPal account.

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      Yeah, I love mullvad. I don’t use my VPN every month, so the low monthly cost, and the privacy friendly purchase methods, are big pluses.