Comment by wolvoleo
13 hours ago
Well Mullvad stopped providing port forwarding, which is necessary for good torrent support (especially if you use public torrents and you need ones that aren't seeded a lot).
They also stopped supporting openvpn which I need. Wireguard only now.
It's not enshittification in terms of ads etc but it is reduction of possibilities because they already make enough money on the people using the main features.
But anyway I rely on both things so I moved over.
What's the reason you need OpenVPN?
I use a hardware router with really nice encryption offloading that does not support wireguard but does support openvpn natively.
This router is in front of my 'arrrrr' subnet at home, where all my leeching servers live. This way sidechannel attacks don't work because they have no alternative path to the internet.
It's a nice setup and I have no wish to change it or to buy other hardware.
mullvad stopped providing port forwarding due to the abuse and the effects a single-digit percent of their users was having on the other 90+% of users.
not because they "already make enough money on the people using the main features" or "enshittification".
its kind of like the opposite of enshittification, actually, seeing how it made the service better for the majority of their users.
Maybe the term is wrong but I really disliked this move. They should just have taken more active measures to combat abuse, which is something all providers have to deal with.
One example: They could have done port forwarding just on UDP. Which would still have allowed torrents (the main usecase for port forwarding) but blocked any kind of webhosting via VPN.
But for me the service got distinctly shittier so for me I think this term qualifies.