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Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

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[–] Carter@feddit.uk 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Of only they'd kept port forwarding.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't really have a choice:

...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.

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Big issue there is hosting providers cancelling them. Can't operate a business without that.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Short of getting their own servers of course. This update seems to be a step forward in that direction

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Even if you own your own servers you still need somewhere to host them; ISPs / colocation providers are going to have the same issues with abuse.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

They already own a lot of their own servers, or at least in the nordics.

[–] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Seems like they were in a super tough spot with that and kind of had to drop it. All the sudden they seem to be doing some new cool stuff to try to keep their edge which I really appreciate / respect. That being said, I've dumped them and switched to a service that still port forwards as it gives me better torrenting throughput. Sorry Mullvad.

[–] ironveil@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 year ago

Only reason I switched away :(

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, they ditched it? I was about to switch from Windscribe but I need port forwarding for all sorts of stuff every day. Oh well :-(