honestly you are going to be fine with most VPN providers. Unless you are one of the members of the very big scene groups, you are just seeding and your threat model is just to mask your connections from your ISP.

I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it's a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding, is transparent about legal requests and have a history of support with the piratebay. On top of that paypal denied payments to them for a period, and that is usually a good sign

like nordvpn (who was a spamming machine on my PC back when I used it) or surfshark

Just FYI neither of those has port forwarding.

ProtonVPN, AirVPN and PIA all support port forwarding iirc

AirVPN and proton vpn can both do port forwarding

I'm a bit confused. Using mullvad and I'm still seeding fine.

Could anyone explain why I need portforwarding?

Using mullvad wireguard and qbittorrent

Seeding with ~1Mbit right now, which is normal for my connection

Edit: thought soulseek is some torrent slang or client, I'm an idiot ^^

I've been an avid user of Windscribe for years. Works great and has great customer support. From what I can tell they also respect your privacy.

I'm in a similar boat, loved mullvad for years but disappointed to see port forwarding go.

Not sure how tech savvy are you, but you can get any VPS with public IP anywhere in the world, you can spin up a simple docker container and create a wireguard tunnel, for example https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy after that a simple port forward and you are good to go... or just connect other devices to the same network, and have them communicate through your own VPN between each other...

Any reputable VPS provider will not spy on your systems, so its even more secure than any VPN you can get. And if you need another IP/exit location, copy the folder with your docker compose file, shutdown one VPS, start another in different location, run one command to install docker, copy the directory and start it up.

Dude still seems to be updating this; though, there doesn't look to be a column detailing port forwarding. Maybe look into a few of these that look good?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_o8QioqAILThKD04FYT95jI1siTOX5L/edit?pli=1#gid=1387289544