Spy520

Not necessarily. Oxylabs could use UPnP to open ports like other similar services as FluidStack, Honeygain, etc.

He wasn’t talking about NordVPN speeds. He was talking about the sort of services offered by Oxylabs, Honeygain, PacketStream and other similar proxy services.

Won’t services like this take advantage of UPnP to open ports?

I know FluidStack which is a similar service uses UPnP to open ports that it requires. FluidStack is a service you earn money through by willingly selling your internet bandwidth though, not like Oxylabs but same idea.

Making your own VPN sure seems like the safest option but something as popular as Linode won’t be of a use to someone who wants to stream geoblocked services as they most likely are already blacklisted from many.