Hello all!

I have been out of the piracy game since a little before mullvad lost port-forwarding; I know these things are ever changing, and to my understanding ivpn is a good bet at this moment in time.

I was wondering what everyone else has been using. As well as if anyone has tried the gui client for ivpn either built from source or the AUR build(I do use arch btw).

I am open to any vpn client that has a good reputation in the community, and build-able from a repository; A gui is preferred but not necessary, and absolutely NO account creation (Except for generic account numbers of course).

Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore. I use airvpn and you can just use the native WireGuard (or OpenVPN if you’r crazy) apps on different platforms if you want.

    • AlexandroffExtension@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Tbf, you don’t really need any app. With Mullvad I just download configuration files and import them in KDE. It really is dead simple. Now enabling VPN at will is just two clicks with the possibility do make it automatic with three to four clicks.

  • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I enjoy ProtonVPN and other services that come with the premium subscription. Proton Pass with email aliases is a very good addition.

  • WeAreAllOne@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Ivpn would be your best choice I think. I’m using proton VPN after mullvad abandoned port forwarding (why oh why did they do that!), but their client for Linux is basic but they are developing a new one at the moment. So port forwarding is a bit difficult to setup (but they do have it).

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    ProtonVPN came with my Proton plan so I decided to try it. Works great on all my Linux distros, haven’t had any problems. Kill switch works too, bind your torrent software of choice to the VPN device and you should be good to go.

    Make suse to use one of the P2P specific servers for best performance.

    No nasty letters from my ISP yet!

  • DangerMouse@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Mysterium looks pretty interesting, being completely decentralized. All the mainstream VPNs are pretty shady to me, being run in a centralized manner and some heavily marketed by “influencers”.

  • RobotDaniel@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Proton vpn is great, has a free tier as well. (Proton is a privacy-focused company so you can probably trust them)

  • Ziro@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can I piggy back on this and ask why NordVPN isn’t as highly recommended?

  • Im1Random@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently using AirVPN and even tough the website looks like a really old forum it’s a fast and cheap VPN with port forwarding.