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If you're researching vpns, maybe consider how they are related to media companies as part of your evaluation:

2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324202

This tailscale press release claims you can forward nonstandard ports with this configuration. Who knows what that means or even if the copy was just approved six months ago or what.

Ivacy has been around a long time and allows it [0].

[0] https://www.ivacy.com/port-forwarding/

(They're based in Singapore)

picking a VPN based on extreme privacy demands that's domiciled in Singapore seems pretty courageous

track record matters more than where the provider is based, I know of no cases where Ivacy have provided logs of anything to authorities.

I went over to https://airvpn.org/, so far so good.

I switched to airvpn and have been happy

ovpn and azirevpn come to mind.