Netflix Pricing Shakeup Removes Cheapest Ad-Free Plan In U.K. and U.S. - IGN
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Online streaming giant Netflix has quietly removed its ad-free Basic plan, forcing users to pay more or sit through adverts to keep costs down.

Netflix Pricing Shakeup Removes Cheapest Ad-Free Plan In U.K. and U.S.::Online streaming giant Netflix has quietly removed its ad-free Basic plan, forcing users to pay more or sit through adverts to keep costs down.

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Maybe keep reading.

    Bittorrent relies on your connection working both ways: to accept incoming and outgoing connections. Without port-forwarding: you may will see slower speeds, slower speed ramp up and if a torrent has very few online seeders you may run into a situation where you cannot connect to anybody at all - no download! Seeding is very hard without port-forwarding.

    Normally home users cannot accept incoming connections due to NAT. This is always the case for proxies and VPNs, but some VPNs allow the assignment of a port that will always lead to your connected device (and to your client). Making outgoing connections is always technically possible but then you rely on the seed/peer to have their ports open! At least one side must be open. There’s no way around.

    They even had a special FAQ-like section for users such as yourself right before the above quote.

    But it has been running fine without any port-forwarding for me!

    Can you explain the risk of port forwarding through a VPN?

    • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Port forwarding is inherently unsafe because it opens your network to outside connections from anyone that knows which port to ping. Having a VPN does nothing to mitigate that threat, it just gives you a different IP.