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I've never used port forwarding. Everything works fine
When you are not port forwarding you can only download from users who are actually port forwarding, or am I incorrect?
You are right
I just said twice that everything works fine as long as "direct" connections can be made. if your torrenting client says that's happening, everything is working fine
That's for downloading, but it you want to upload/seed, then you would need port forwarding.
and for downloading too when no one else has forwarded a port in the swarm
yes, seeding works too, with no port forwarding. With mullvad, it just works and with proton I have to enable "moderate NAT" sometimes, but seeding works without port forwarding, it always has
Only because you're seeding to people that have port forwarding active. You can't seed to people that are running the same setup as yourself.
Port forwarding is a huge vulnerability. With proton it's not as much of a vulnerability, but it still opens a lot of shit that should stay closed
whatever the case is, I'm able to seed without port forwarding
You're opening a port in your VPN connection so no there's no "huge vulnerability" (even without a VPN you're only opening a port to your torrent client) and as mentioned, you're only seeding to people who have port forwarding set up. If more people run without it like yourself, the whole system breaks down.
What do you think it makes you vulnerable to?
You can still seed to users that do have port forwarding.
correct.... you aint power seeding but enough to to give back to the community of Linux iso enoyers