Gradual removal of port forwarding from the IVPN service (www.ivpn.net)

submitted 1 year ago by crewman_princess to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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The pond is shrinking. Who's left with port forward?

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[-] kCNrnHcEkvqdtLCQoQbK@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

As of today (29 June 2023), Port forwarding is not offered for new customers as part of the Pro plan. Further, existing IVPN Pro customers cannot reserve new ports. Existing reservations will stay in place, and can be disabled by manual action.

We are disabling all reserved ports and completely remove this feature from our service on 30 September 2023.

[-] stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

I've been using ephemeral port forwarding on a Windscribe pro account, hope they keep the feature. It's a pretty good service

[-] dngray@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Proton still has it with NAT-PMP which requires the use of py-natpmp on Linux.

There are other providers but these generally don't meet our requirements as they don't have open source clients or have no audits or are generally not as trustworthy.

WIndscribe also has ephemeral port forwarding and we are looking at adding that some time. Audits have now been completed and they are refactoring some iOS code, then it will be good to go.

[-] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quite a few : Perfect-privacy, cryptostorm, nVpn, protonvpn, airvpn, azirevpn, torguard.

Though some have questionable privacy practices. Do your due diligence before anything.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I never new this was a popular thing. Can someone give a high level on why people port forward in vpns and why they would block it?

[-] Dusty@l.dusty-radio.com 2 points 1 year ago

People want it for torrenting or hosting things to the outside world. /c/Piracy has been flipping out because Mullvad removed port forwarding, which now apparently makes them one of the worst VPNs ever.

Mullvad (and I'm sure others) removed it because individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services. They simply do not want the kinds of things that users were hosting, passed through their servers as it has led to police visits, blacklisting and providers cancelling them.

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