I was using mullvad for the past few years but since port forwarding got shut down last year (I haven’t pirated anything since then), I’m going to switch over the Proton.
The pricing for Proton says that if I buy the 2 year plan, it’ll be 55% off compared to buying it monthly (4.49 vs 9.99), but is it right to assume that Proton will support port forwarding for the next 2 years or should I think conservatively and just get a 1-year / monthly plan?
If you’re really worried about losing port forwarding again, you might want to consider a VPN that specifically guarantees this feature long-term, tho those might be kinda hard to find. Mullvad used to be great for this before they shut it down. It’s a gamble, but the 55% discount on the 2-year plan is tempting
You might be better off with airvpn. Their ethos is more aligned with never messing with your traffic. “A breath of fresh internet” to quote the advertising.
Wait for AirVPN’s anniversary sale, it’s usually around summertime and they offer a nice 25% discount for all plans, so you could get 3 years for 75$ (2.1$ / month) which is pretty sweet. They’re not as top-tier as Mullvad in terms of speed (Mullvad had servers in my city which helped) and their app is still designed with Windows 3.1 in mind, but I’ve been using it for the last year and it’s a solid service.
If your not in Italy I would go with Air
If you are a student, you can email them and get a pretty good 1 year plan.
Proton already supports port forwarding. Every time you connect, it provides you an open port number. It’s a bit of a pain to keep changing the port in your torrent client every time but it does work.
Windscribe has a $30 year deal atm, port forwarding available already and will stay.
https://windscribe.com/upgrade?promo=BLAZENOW&pcpid=2024_anniversary_blog&ref=blog.windscribe.com
Personally, I am seeing better speeds with windscribe than I did with proton. I haven’t tried mullivad to compare. Also don’t like the idea of my vpn, vault and email being 1 service so I opt for splitting it up between.
i tried proton it slowed down my pc and crashed my icue software each time,im going to try airvpn next
You don’t need to open ports to torrent. Why do you need?
You’re saving like $12, but lose freedom to change for one year. What do you mean “2-year plan is tempting”…?
Unfortunately we italians can’t use AirVPN 
They know that. Their question is if people think they will have it for 2 years and not stop that feature in that time-frame lol
You should be using port forwarding when torrenting.
they do have it tho, his question was if they will keep supporting it
I play very niche games and I’ve heard that niche games require open ports to have a higher chance at seeding
It does improve performance for private trackers by quite a lot
why can’t we use it? perchè?
EDIT letto sul forum
Sounds like I misunderstood!
Did you just neutralize OP’s gender?