For the record I’m not one of the downvotes 🤷‍♂️

Replied to you other comment in regards to this dismissal. Good day.

Or I’m an informed consumer who tried proton’s offering (among many others, over MANY hours of testing OP’s exact use case), considered it critically, and came to the conclusion that: A) its not good for this use case B) there are too many red flags that they only care about privacy insofar as they can use it for marketing. Just cause you bought their marketing hook line and sinker doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m talking about and you can dismiss my point without backing up yours.

We aren’t talking about your grandma and grandpa who you want to “ease the transition for” in this thread, they asked for a P2P FRIENDLY VPN FOR LINUX and everyone comes in and name drops Proton and Mullvad without any justification or thought.

Proton’s mission is to make money, fullstop.

• If you use windows over linux (or BSD): you do not care about your privacy. You can not have any form of privacy when your OS is spying on everything you do. Full stop. (Not hard to switch)
• Proton’s entire ecosystem prioritises windows at this current time. Full stop.
• therefore if you buy into proton’s ecosystem, lured in by the advertising of “privacy”, you are incentivized to remain on Windows, because the experience you are paying for is better there, while thinking you have privacy. (This continues into what I meant by the honeypot comment, meant as a light dig at proton not really relevant to the OPs question, but since you dismissed that as invalid as well… Luring people into more and more products under the guise of “privacy”, centralized under one company, who already supports an OS with backdoors, so its not outside the realm of possibility that they allow gov backdoors too if they are willing to compomise their privacy values for money)

That’s why in my opinion, proton doesn’t give a shit about their users privacy. If they did, they would do everything they could to ease the transition for their users away from US government spyware Windows. But they don’t care, cause they rake in the money, they’ve said that’s why themselves. 🤷‍♂️

But to the OP, if you wanna try proton on linux for P2P, be my guest, i’m done trying to help people in this thread.

Edit: fixed formatting error… and again to clarify wording and add a relevant link just to drive home that linux/bsd doesn’t need to be scary techie stuff, its very mainstream, gaming pc compatible these days. Very low barrier to switch.

Final Edit: added mullvad in para 2

P2P enabled

Mullvad does not support port forwarding.

If you are torrenting without seeding (requires port forwarding) you are the reason free (community seeded) torrenting sucks now.

P2P enabled

Double checked and ivpn no longer supports port forwarding. Anyone torrenting without seeding is why free (community seeded) torrenting fucking sucks now.

Yes in order to “seed” the files you have downloaded you need to port forward your file sharing software’s ports.

Basic torrenting etiquette is at least 1:1 ratio if we don’t want free easy access to (free) torrents to degrade (too late honestly, we’re already there). Pressure from Hollywood to block port forwarding contributes in this degredation.

(Paid) Private trackers have their own ratio rules and you will actually get booted if you don’t follow them.

Yes its pretty fast in my experience. When I had a 1Gbps fibre connection I regularly saw speeds of 28MBps (MB not Mb, so like over 200Mbps) downloads on steam (so from a single source), I don’t recall what my max was when torrenting multiple large files consecutively, but for example a 1080p movie took like 45 seconds. Their compatibility with my docker setup on my server was pleasantly good after many failed attempts with other VPNs.

Mullvad sounded like a good option to me, both pricewise and privacywise, but was a non-starter due to them folding to Hollywoods pressure and disallowing port forwarding. Anyone who torrents without port forwarding and sharing back what they get at least 1:1 is a scab IMO.

Unfortunately I only have a (somewhat tenuous) mobile 5G data connection these days, but here is a fresh speed test result showing about 60 Mbps (Mb this time, not MB) while connected to AirVPN. I ran a few and they averaged 30-60Mbps. Exact same speeds without it on, but with slightly lower ping, about 85-90 ping, but surprisngly higher jitter around the 85-90 too when not connected 🤷‍♂️. You’ll have to take my word for it that its similar speed without it connected since I don’t want to share my actual IP results.

I believe speeds depend on which server you connect to, but they don’t implement any throttling on their end, exept an even reduction in allocated speed if a single server’s connection becomes saturated. For example if everyone in one region decided to connect to one specific server, it may saturate its network connection and everyone’s share of the total bandwidth would reduce. (I personally have not seen this happen, or anywhere near it on any of the servers I regularly connect to). I believe normies that use their default app (Eddie) have access to better features like automatic server switching so I imagine they prevent this from happening with some sort of load balancing.

AirVPN. Only trustworthy VPN left that doesn’t discriminate traffic and allows port forwarding. You know they’re good cause they barely advertise at all.

I don’t use Eddie, their client, but just import my config into network-manager on linux. Works with openvpn and wireguard (wg-tools installed on fedora).

I use WG Tunnel app from fdroid on android.

Protons support for linux for all their products is dogshit and thats how you know they don’t actually give a shit about privacy. If they are happy pushing their customers to stay on windows spyware then obviously they don’t really give a shit

Airvpn is great. One of the last VPNs that doesn’t throttle traffic for P2P. Allows port forwarding.

Proton is the most obvious honeypot I’ve ever seen

earned is doing alotta work in that sentence lol

My exact reaction! World fisheries are already collapsing and he pulls this???

Ya as a Canadian I love the EU and support you guys; I hope we build stronger trade and relationships. I know I’m shopping more EU companies, just wish more could figure out how to ship to Canada.

However, why tf would Canada join the EU… We are not in Europe, its in the title folks 🤷‍♂️

The push to regain more control of our sovereignty does not sit well with the idea of joining yet another distant organization we will be beholden to.

FWIW I had my reservations about the “source first” licence grayjay uses as well, but I’m impressed by the FUTO org’s principles, how they respond to bugs, how fast fixes and improvements come, amount of sponsoring other FOSS projects they do, etc. Plus Rossman’s work for R2R and other generally good ethical behaviour. So I believe their reasoning when they say its necessary.

I ended up purchasing the licence and am happy with that decision. I just look at it as a donation to support the development, and the fight against big tech which would have happened if it was FOSS too in my case.

Also the best/only source available app to access nebula.tv content AFAIK 🤷‍♂️

Matrix, XMPP, SimpleX, Molly (signal fork without closed source blobs) lots of good opensource options out there.

Wow I wish my knitting level was about 84 levels higher

Yes, its been a long time. But I still remember every line. You remember your first? Mine was some NGINX proxy at the Battle of Netflix.

My server took an arrow from my ISP so I was on foot, slogging through the configuration files. Tech support came running at me, this dumb corporate policy, thinking they could end the rebellion with a single policy blocking port forwarding.

I knocked them with the tailscale. Gods I was strong then. Caved in their double NAT. Probably shattered every iptable they had.

Stood over them, keyboard in the air. Right before I brought it down they said “Wait, wait!”

They never tell you how they all shit themselves. They don’t put that part in the songs. Stupid ISP.

I’m also planning to experiment with hempcrete and mycelium blocks in the future; unfortunately don’t have any advice right now for you.

You could 3d print a square mould with the sound dampening undulations. I’m picturing something with finger joints on the edges so you can assemble into a box with an open front, add a thrifted tv cabinet glass door on the front and some ventilation and you’re set.

Following to see how it goes. Good luck!

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