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Most quality VPNs will have a killswitch built in and enabled automatically, with nothing to setup, but they are notoriously unreliable and can fail. The key term people want to search for is "bind." You want to bind qBit to your VPN. If your VPN isn't working, qBit doesn't have a connection. Most decent, privacy first, "no log" VPNs (Mullvad, Proton, AirVPN, iVPN, etc.) will provide instructions on binding. This is above and beyond their built-in killswitch.
I'm not saying you shouldn't recommend these, or that people shouldn't use them, but IMO, people should at least be warned to search for the following, so they can make an informed decision:
NordVPN also doesn't have port forwarding so you're unlikely to be able to seed anything back. This'll get you banned from private trackers and goes against the whole concept of torrenting.
Yeah, Mullvad stopped offering Port Forwarding as well, along with iVPN (I think) and some others. I believe AirVPN is the recommended VPN which still has PF (I may have iVPN and Air mixed up). I understand one of the reasons why they stopped supporting PF (it allowed sick f*cks to share illegal child content with others), but it also pretty much destroyed my ability to find and complete a download of old/er files that I normally didn't have a problem with, and, like you mentioned, I could no longer seed back. It's the sole reason why I started using usenet. I could have tried one of the other VPNs I mentioned (Proton & Air, which I believe both have PF) but I chose to stick with Mullvad and add usenet instead, which I've really liked.
Yes I was actually sad to leave Mullvad, and the developer was pretty cool about giving refunds, so I'd definitely go back if things changed in the future.
AirVPN does have port forwarding and is what I wound up switching to. So far, everything is working fine and there are a decent number of servers available.
Glad that worked out with AirVPN, they're the main alternative to Mullvad that I was considering back then. I may still try them in the future. Yeah, I was shocked that Mullvad was so cool about handing out refunds. I've read about many other VPNs that wouldn't consider that. I guess with Mullvad being the official rebranded Mozilla VPN they can afford to let some people go and still have a smile about it.