If it’s just like, using a friend’s IP address, it’s not really serving the same privacy purposes as you won’t have the same IP address as loads of people, unlike using a commercial privacy VPN. I use Mullvad which is notorious for being blocked a lot, and even I can use the internet nearly completely unimpeded.
Mullvad disabled port forwarding, so you are essentially kneecapped while torrenting as some private trackers require participants to port forward and being stuck as a leecher isn’t fun.
Airvpn has port forwarding and goes on sale during seasonal holidays.
Use mullvad if you know you aren’t going to torrent at all and just want IP spoofing with performance.
Don’t use free vpns or other companies, they literally could be Israeli mossad fronts.
Proton CEO is a NATO liberal.
what do you think of vpns that use residential isps (are there any)?
basically a vpn that would use a local isp (like a Vodafone ip for UK or Germany) so you can avoid websites blocking you for using a vpn
Probably would work for geo-spoofing, but in most cases mullvad vpns haven’t been blocked so much.
You can roll out your own vpn quite easily with something like tailscale and route all your traffic through your home machine.
If it’s just like, using a friend’s IP address, it’s not really serving the same privacy purposes as you won’t have the same IP address as loads of people, unlike using a commercial privacy VPN. I use Mullvad which is notorious for being blocked a lot, and even I can use the internet nearly completely unimpeded.
Mullvad doesn’t allow torrenting?
Mullvad disabled port forwarding, so you are essentially kneecapped while torrenting as some private trackers require participants to port forward and being stuck as a leecher isn’t fun.
Ah makes sense
It works fine for me.