opinions on hide.me free VPN? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello! I recently set up my first home server, and would like to set up qbittorrent on it. I tried using protonVPN, which is what I use on desktop, but got rate limited because torrenting on the free plan is not allowed. What do you think of hide.me vpn? it has a CLI linux version, I think I can install it inside the docker container and set up a killswitch (that should be built in? at least that's what they say) to torrent safely.

I know paid VPNs are better and also pretty cheap, but I cannot afford one right now. Any tips?

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 9 months ago

free services get paid somehow. i wouldnt trust them

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 9 months ago

I know, but It's better than exposing my IP, right? I mean, do I actually risk something using the free plan?

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

this is what I was using with protonVPN, but I'm not sure if I can configure it also for hide.me because it is not in the supported providers

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

Just go with mullvad, so far it is the only VPN I know of that allows you to pay with physical currency with zero papertrail back to you.

Mullvad.net

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 9 months ago

I wish I could afford it...

[-] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

~~Didn't Mullvad ban torrenting?~~

edit: looked it up, looks like they didn't. Can't remember what I read that said they did.

[-] safesyrup@feddit.ch 14 points 9 months ago

I think they disabled port forwarding makin torrenting more difficult, don‘t quote me on that though

[-] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Ah yeah, that sounds about right.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 9 months ago

whatever free provider you want, pick one that supports OpenVPN, as that is where you can force gluetun to work generic-ly. i seemed to recall some instructions for non-preconfig OpenVpn connections. .. maybe