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

  • delnac@lemmy.oneEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • LerajeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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

      • delnac@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • LerajeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          A lot of people feel the same re:seeding and it is unfortunate but from reading their blog post about it, it was getting massively abused. Over on r/mullvadvpn someone stated there were a few people using it to serve CASM which makes their decision to remove the feature totally understandable.