Comment by timtom39
3 years ago
Dam, really liked these guys but this makes it about useless for torrent seeding. I wish they would have considered alternatives like only allowing port forwarding for some of their IPs. I don't care about IP reputation.
Exactly. For torrenting it doesn't need to access web services. It just needs to be able to connect to peers. Having a port forwarding IP block would make everyone happy.
Torrent peers are too random so it's hard to restrict for IPs.
If the problem is hosting malicious websites, they may able to provide limited port forwarding. Browsers' restricted port can't be used by browser so it's a way to avoid web hosting I believe. A problem is that there are only 80 ports now (for Chromium). https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...
I would happily pay more for an account with port forwarding enabled. Maybe charging more for port forwarding enabled accounts could help offset the increased trouble caused by port forwarding abusers. It might even push some of them to other providers. Either way, this thread is evidence enough that port forwarding is a feature that people want.
Not in need of fowarding, and a happy mullvad customer but that does sound like a good compromise. Although I think that still may attract a lot of attention from authorities etc