Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN, advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we have developed DAITA – a feature available in our VPN app. Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion, we are taking the battle against AI-guided traffic analysis.

From Mullvad

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    732·
    21 hours ago

    Hey they did support it until they were getting difficult legal contacts because some users were abusing it, and getting turned away by different hosting providers.

    They shut it down to protect the rest of us who use it without abusing it.

    https://mullvad.net/en/blog/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.

    I know the port forwarding thing can be a deal-breaker for some people, but it’s not Mullvad’s fault that they needed to remove this to be able to continue providing quality services for the rest of their customer base.

    This is sadly one of those “this is why we can’t have nice things” type deals because when enough people abuse it, it becomes a problem. I have no ill will towards Mullvad for taking it away when it became financially and legally foolish to continue doing so.

    • apex32@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      How are other VPN services able to do port forwarding without having this problem?

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        122·
        19 hours ago

        They force you to pay with KYC money… No Pedo is stupid enough to be spreading CSAM on that VPN

        • lapping6596@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          15 hours ago

          Given how often I see articles where a pedo was caught because they were sending photos over telegram unencrypted or similar. I do think many are that stupid.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            Much like other criminals, only the stupid ones get caught. Look at how many of those articles say that they’d been doing it for decades. Many more of them are out there right now.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            11·
            14 hours ago

            I think that’s another reputable VPN?

            Then my theory might be debunked or they will get forced to cut off port forwarding too

            • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              13 minutes ago

              I’m not sure. Some people say that because they’re in Italy which is part of the N eyes, they’re not trustworthy.

              Then there’s the fact that they haven’t been audited independently. The admin says it’s because audits are security theater not real proof of privacy, so he’d rather not give some 3rd party root access to the servers.