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		wkat4242 on Dec 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Review of Mullvad VPN It massively reduces the available torrent pools. That's not a niche thing. Also many trackers use udp. I'm thinking of moving to protonvpn.

coppsilgold on Dec 12, 2024 [–]

The Torrent uTP protocol (UDP) has hole-punching.

There is an issue for torrents with so few peers that no one is connectable, and therefore there is no one to hole-punch for everyone else.

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