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opinions on hide.me free VPN? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I recently set up my first home server, and would like to set up qbittorrent on it. I tried using protonVPN, which is what I use on desktop, but got rate limited because torrenting on the free plan is not allowed. What do you think of hide.me vpn? it has a CLI linux version, I think I can install it inside the docker container and set up a killswitch (that should be built in? at least that's what they say) to torrent safely.

I know paid VPNs are better and also pretty cheap, but I cannot afford one right now. Any tips?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

free services get paid somehow. i wouldnt trust them

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I know, but It's better than exposing my IP, right? I mean, do I actually risk something using the free plan?

regardless, you want to use gluetun for your docker-based vpn client. then you can set other containers to only use gluetun for outside access, preventing public ip bleed.

this is what I was using with protonVPN, but I'm not sure if I can configure it also for hide.me because it is not in the supported providers

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just go with mullvad, so far it is the only VPN I know of that allows you to pay with physical currency with zero papertrail back to you.

Mullvad.net

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I wish I could afford it...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

~~Didn't Mullvad ban torrenting?~~

edit: looked it up, looks like they didn't. Can't remember what I read that said they did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they disabled port forwarding makin torrenting more difficult, don‘t quote me on that though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ah yeah, that sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

whatever free provider you want, pick one that supports OpenVPN, as that is where you can force gluetun to work generic-ly. i seemed to recall some instructions for non-preconfig OpenVpn connections. .. maybe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

doesn't it also supports wireguard?