I haveint forgotten @dessalines@lemmy.ml’s Favorite apps and services, and in particular his recommendation for torrents VPN (AirVPN, Mullvad, NordVPN, ProtonVPN).
I’ve never used a VPN, and so far no issues (not really an avid consumer, but I’ve occasionally done torrenting for ~20 years). I use the pseudo encryption supported, and in particular, I use rtorrent wiht:
protocol.encryption.set = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry
For sure that doesn’t really mask it, but obfuscates a bit the torrenting from ISP providers, which are not doing a hard work looking for torrenting.
Regarding privacy, my understanding is one should trust no one, :) And it’s hard for me to understand why it doesn’t apply to VPNs…
At any rate, from those suggestions, as of now, which is the one somehow better at protecting one’s identity, privacy and security? That would be my major concern, and if there’s a way to keep that with port forwarding. Not interested on fastest, but rather safest…
I’m wondering how on earth I’ve never had issues, when I always read not using a VPN is sort of nuts.
I’ve used VPN to work remotely for more than 20 years, and different sort of VPNs, unfortunately closed sourced privative ones. VPNs give way too much knowledge and control to the VPN provider or service owner, over the user. They do know who the user is, and they can also block whatever they want. VPNs make a lot of sense for remote work, but I’ve always been hesitant about personal VPN use. If I can get away without VPNs, that would be my preference.
That said, if there’s no other way, then again, what is the recommendation for best privacy and security possible? I’ve read good comments about NordVPN, and also about mullvad, and if I recall correctly, in some past post @dessalines@lemmy.ml suggested he was using mullvad. Perhaps a plus would be if their servers are all placed out of the 14 or more eyes. But searching on the internet, I guess it’s hard to tell, there’s always hot debate on them. Perhaps knowing I’m all for more privacy/security helps providing advice to me. VPN, as mentioned, is not something I’m happy to use. Also, I’d prefer, and even if it sounds like a contradiction, to use and pay for a VPN from a non profit organization, privacy oriented, perhaps that helps a little bit on the trust issue…
Actually, it seems privacyguides suggest mullvad, although not directly said… Now, payment is another privacy issue, and cash (I don’t posses any cryptos, and if I were to, that’d be monero, which is not supported unfortunately), and trusting the post service with actual money is sort of a bad idea…
If only there was a way to set all connections encrypted, and encapsulating the torrenting…