There’s a reason why most providers don’t allow that feature anymore
Yes, cheese pizza
It’s said that port forwarding is a security risk
Says who? Assuming a fully patched system/client and a properly configured firewall/network, I'd love to hear more about these "risks".
Also, qBitTorrent works just fine without it.
Only if you don't care about seeding
Based. I use gluetun with qbt and ProtonVPN (with port forwarding). Despite this being a tricky config, it was still pretty easy to setup. Can share bash scripts if anyone is interested.
I’m personally a big fan of bore. It’s easy to setup/use and there’s a free public instance operated by the developer.
Faster downloads (sometimes significantly), easier to connect to seeders.
This. I switched over to protonvpn, but I’d switch back in a heartbeat if Mullvad re-enables port forwarding.
gluetun bundles a control server on port 8000 which you can query for the port number (don't worry about
openvpnbeing in the url path, it still works with Wireguard). In my bash script (running on the host system), I usecurlto retrieve the forwarded port number and then do a POST with that data to the API of my qbt client which is running in another container on port 8080.