• DannyMac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They’re removing Port Forwarding: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/

      Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

      The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked.

      The abuse vector of port forwarding has caught up with us, and today we announce the discontinuation of support for port forwarding. This means that if you are a user of forwarded ports, you will not be able to add or modify the ports you have in use.

      We have removed the ability to add port forwards on all accounts.

      Let me put on my tinfoil hat for a second: I have a heck of a time believing other VPN providers haven’t encountered the same issues as Mullvad and to me, this signals that Mullvad’s competitors are working with, lets say, organizations that would be highly interested in what you’re doing.

        • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I think he’s saying that all VPNs that do port forward will interest governments/police and the ones that are still operating are probably only operating because they got a deal to not be prosecuted in exchange of letting those entities see the traffic. Mullvad being Mullvad, they will never do that so instead of having all those legals threats, they just shut down the port-forward service. Tbh I’m surprised it ran as long as it did.