Well I'm not going to stop using it until i've seen another VPN get raided and verified to not hand out my data.
Shit sucks but I'm not aware of any other VPN that doesn't have accounts, and let's you pay without a credit card.
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I've been too lazy to renew my Mullvad subscription, and now I have another reason not to
Apparently they've now posted a response:
We also live these values by being tolerant in our daily work. Everyone is welcome to collaborate with Mullvad if they share these narrow core values. As employees, contractors, customers, suppliers, lobbyists, campaign partners or whatever it might be. No matter what their other opinions are and no matter whether the founders or anyone else in Mullvad dislike them. The founders themselves fundamentally disagree on several important issues.
In context, this seems...tone-deaf. "It's okay! Immigrants are welcome to work for Mullvad even if the founders 'dislike' them." Yikes.
It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't.
I would argue that those three things aren't even all on the same level, and that's without even addressing the fucking fascism of 're-migration' policies.
That said, if you no longer want to be a Mullvad customer for philosophical reasons, we think it's important to honor that, and will gladly refund you.
Unless you were smart enough to pay anonymously, in which case you're welcome to doxx yourself, I guess.
the comments are a nazi cesspool. guess I wont be renewing
Yeah, I was pretty disgusted as well. If I was on the fence before, that definitely clinched it for me. I only wish I hadn't renewed recently.
Never had these issues with Njalla (run by Pirate Party affiliated people)
This is a recurring issue with Proton and Mullvad
disgusting? yes
surprising? no
libertarians and borderline-criminals have always shared the privacy space with anti-capitalist lefties, since before the Bolsheviks bulk-ordered their red shirts.
Wondering if it's time that we as an anti-authoritarian left community, establish our own VPN...
Nym existe i thing their founders are anarchist. But don't know if they are trust worthy. The people involve seam decent NOT PERFECT IN ANY way https://nym.com/about
What do you consider to be "anti-authoritarian left?"
Anything shared here would inevitably be (or become) a honeypot. If you want a community-driven VPN, it would need to be something like Tor. Individual nodes being hosted by the community, and a zero-trust system to ensure no single node sees enough traffic to ID users.
But the issue with this is that a malicious actor (like the government) could simply spin up enough nodes to be able to capture the system. A zero-trust system like Tor is only secure because it is large. It’s not economical for a single actor to run enough nodes to reliably capture all three connections in the chain. But if it’s a small group (like Lemmy) starting up their own system, then it would be trivial for a larger organization to simply outnumber the two or three dozen safe nodes.
There's the I2P network too. Not a VPN as such, but there are exit nodes and you can run one yourself if you want.
RiseUp VPN already exists. I trust that they aren't feds but I also assume the feds have snuck some sort of spyware on them asap.
Im sorry, but people here in the comments seem to be complaining to complain. If both Mullvad and Proton are known to fund/support fascist parties, then what do you suggest we leftists use? And dont just blindly recommend eastern spyware VPNs either. Maybe we just go back to distributing newspapers and using radio, just like our comrades back then did
Anyone have experience with iVPN? I've generally heard it's good, but I'm not sure how it compares. Looks like it's the same price as Mullvad at least, and also accepts cash and monero as payment options. I'm just wondering about how many servers they have comparable and how often they got blocked by major websites. I'm thinking that'll probably be what I switch to, unless it has some major problems I'm not aware of.
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I use AirVPN, personally. They put money where the mouth is and haven't donated to any Nazis either.
They look good from an ethics standpoint, but it looks like the only anonymous payment method they take is monero. I'm considering them, but I'm not super familiar with crypto and how to obtain monero. Looks like I'll need to do some research.
isn't monero the only decent way to pay anonymously over the internet?
Emphasis on "over the internet". Mullvad and others also accept cash via mail, though obviously that can take weeks depending on where you're mailing it from.
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