I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.
I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.
You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad
Is there a guide? I have the same problem.
Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can't port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.
Source
AirVPN is the other choice here that offers port forwarding still.
Thank you ! I’ll go check that out 🙂
Did proton have a leg to stand on with the Swiss authorities? I’m only just learning about this case
Afaik, they were forced to log and report IP addresses for the user’s mail logins.
They can’t do that for their VPN, though, so I’ve seen some people recommend you create your account through another VPN or via their Onion service, and then only connect with the VPN on.
This seems fragile at best, and isn’t helped by the fact the most anonymous payment option they accept is cash by mail, which is still quite traceable. They also take bitcoin, which is extremely traceable.
If they expand to accept Monero, I’ll reconsider, but for now I’m sticking with Mullvad. I use mailbox.org for mail, which does log IP addresses (for 4 days), but it is a separate account from my VPN so I don’t really care.
I’m also put off by their recent posts supporting the Republican Party. It is really strange for a privacy company to support authoritarians, and the addition of them leaving Mastodon but staying on Xitter doesn’t inspire much confidence in them.