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Mullvad has stopped providing port forwarding, which means torrenting can leak IP often enough to endanger users.
Edit: I made a minor mistake in a hurry, port forwarding affects torrenting in that you connect to less seeds/peers, although you could still bind it to your torrent client.
Can you explain a bit more, if you don't mind? From what I've read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don't see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I've never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I'm just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I'm not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.
I seemed to have mixed binding and VPN provider credibility in a hurry. Sorry for that. So, port forwarding gets you more seeds/peers during torrenting, and lacking that affects torrenting.