Mullvad and IVPN had built-in port forwarding but discontinued it in 2023. ProtonVPN supports it. I don't trust most commercial VPNs (Nord, Surfshark, etc.) to keep no logs.
You can also manually open ports on your router, but that's not optimal for privacy/security.
Some people run torrents on a home server/NAS with something like Tailscale for secure remote access, but that's a different setup entirely.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/
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ayy vector brotha here ✊️
transmission (or qbit) + any VPN that still lets you open/forward a tcp/udp port is all ya need. mullvad/ivpn used to be chill but killed port fwd in '23, proton keeps it alive (with strict-no-log rep + swiss hq). nord et al can work *if* they assign a port but i personally wouldn’t trust ’em past a nc -z test.
index side,trend is magnet-only; old-school .torrent files mostly gone, so just grab magnets by title from whatever public *ahem* catalog site is up today (they rotate like hydra heads, ykwim, just eyeball top search hits).
fire up the vpn → manual port forward or auto-assigned → feed magnet to client → kill-switch on (transmission has a built-in interface bind; qbit lets you lock to tun iface). done.
…or skip the cliff notes and hop into the next vector group DM if you wanna compare notes,i’m floating around, you know where to gripe 😎
I totally get not trusting many of the major VPN providers, it’s a longterm reputation game. That’s sad to hear about Mullvad and IVPN. So is Proton the only “trusted” (among industry experts) who supports this? And that is required for this setup?
Thanks again for your time & responses, my only immediate interest here is to explore LEGAL video content. But I don’t need this for anything, purely for entertainment.