My VPN plan is up for renewal, and I’d like to move from my current provider (Privado) to one that supports port forwarding while maintaining access to a SOCKS5 service.
AirVPN would have been my choice, but doesn’t have SOCKS5.
Private Internet Access checks off the boxes but I’m not familiar with the company behind it.
Thanks for the help and recommendations.
I use AirVPN and a simple GlueTun container with socks proxy enabled then I can use any VPN provider.
Windscribe has split tunneling and port forwarding, but doesn’t directly host SOCKS5. You can however run a SOCKS server locally and the WS app will route if set up. https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/why-was-socks5-discontinued/
PIA is probably fine until there’s legitimate evidence demonstrating they aren’t, there are only baseless accusations at present based on who owns them
i know probably nobody wants to hear that, but PIA is dead for me since they sponsored fucking fascist Gab a few years back.
Mullvad maybe?
https://mullvad.net/en/help/socks5-proxySadly, Mullvad doesn’t do port forwarding any more.
I’ve heard port forwarding is important for seeding, but why is that? Doesn’t your uploaded data still go through your vpn regardless if port forwarding is enabled?
