It’s an Israeli and US company. If anyone is somehow MITM snooping your TLS traffic, it’s them.

That’s a valid question and I have 5 different answers. Lol. It all built out over the last 5 years.

I started with one instance and was raw-dogging the net but only using reputable private trackers (ie, teh cabal).
On GGn I was seeding about 20,000 torrents (bulk of this was Linux isos for older retro computers).
Every time ggn has stability issues (every fucking day), it would drag my entire torrent client down with it so I moved all my ggn torrents to their own instance to isolate that problem. That instance still struggled to handle so many torrents on such an unstable tracker so I split ggn across 2 instances.

Then I found some things on public trackers I wanted to download and seed, the full dump of Redtopia being one example. So I created another instance that was routed through a VPN via gluetun to use on public trackers.

And lastly I created one more instance to handle my porn stash.

So that’s how I amassed 5 separate torrent clients on the same machine and more recently I moved to a different ISP who uses CGNAT and have decided that I am happy with cgnat and use a VPN that allows opening of ports to handle all my torrent clients.

It’s true that the point of failure in a VPN is the provider, which is why trusting the company is important.

It’s also true that you definitely can’t trust your ISP and government so in the worst case scenario you just wasted $70.

he could be a rational human about it and see that it’s bad for the brand. considering he was willing to work with a guy that actively dislikes what he did he may have a few braincells left.

I think “would take a lot” might be understating it.

It’s likely he’d have to be bought out by the other guy with an attractive offer.

There are many options. It’s important to do some research on these options. It’s also important to know why you want to choose a certain provider. Check their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at the very least. For now, I’m looking into IVPN.

I totally agree! It’s just that I have two routers setup with them, running 24/7, and I have configured mom’s devices with my account and I don’t have the time to reconfigure all this with something else at the moment. 😩

National Bolsheviks, in essence merging nazism with communism.

Nazism+

what an awful idea

Like this?

Extracted with firefox reader mode and machine translated:

Internal crisis at Mullvad: “Drags down the company” Jacob Lundberg 4–5 minutes

Last week, Flamman was able to reveal that tech profile Daniel Berntsson is the main financier of the Örebro Party, which is running for parliament with demands for “large-scale remigration”.

The news was presented to employees late on Friday evening, and according to several sources with insight, the information has led to an internal rebellion at the IT company Mullvad, where Berntsson is the owner and CEO.

Around a quarter of the employees gathered in an internal chat over the weekend, where they aired criticism of both the donation and the company’s handling of the disclosure.

“I was shocked and sad, and at first surprised,” writes an employee to Flamman.

Another person says that it is both a “deep disappointment” and an “insult” to the company’s employees with a foreign background.

Berntsson himself commented on the news to employees during a meeting on Monday, where employees were allowed to ask questions. Sources to Flamman described the atmosphere before the meeting as tense.

To Flamman, Berntsson justified the donation with “resistance to corruption and dysfunction, creativity and the will to actually solve problems.” Regarding the party’s demand for “comprehensive remigration,” he said that it is needed in view of “today’s miserable situation.”

Several sources tell Flamman that Berntsson has emphasized at recent staff meetings that there are dividing lines among employees in their views on immigration.

“It was like a puzzle piece fell into place,” says an employee, after the revelation about the donation.

Another source says that he has not seen anyone among the staff express support for the donation. At the same time, the chat group for critical discussion still only brings together a minority of the staff.

However, another source believes that the critical group is probably larger.

“I suspect that not everyone dares to show what they think and feel,” he writes to Flamman.

The employees are critical of the donation for several reasons, including that many of the employees themselves are immigrants and “take this very personally.”

Several employees also point out that the Örebro Party’s attitude towards surveillance is at odds with Mullvad’s, as they have advocated increasing the number of surveillance cameras and enabling secret wiretapping in the hunt for criminals.

“Many of the staff believe that this disqualifies Daniel as the leader of a company like Mullvad,” the source writes.

The person also says that many have applied to Mullvad for ethical reasons, that the management’s handling of the issue “definitely damaged trust” among the staff, and that several employees “in light of the donation are considering quitting”. One person says that they will “look around for alternatives”.

“My trust in the leadership is at rock bottom”, says a third person.

The source also says that they see no other way forward than for Daniel Berntsson to step down as CEO. However, another employee sees it as unlikely that Berntsson, who owns 50 percent of the company, will step down on his own. At the meeting, he is also said to have rejected the idea.

“My guess is that he will stay just as before. If you look at how the official response is worded, it is about Mullvad standing for freedom of opinion. They are trying to emphasize that it is something he did as a private person, and that it is therefore not so bad.”

However, the person remains critical:

“It’s one thing to have opinions that don’t match mine, but to make such a gigantic donation without realizing that he is bringing down both himself, Mullvad as a company and all employees at the same time. It makes me doubt his ability as CEO and manager.”

Flamman has sought out Daniel Berntsson.

Thank you a lot🌹.

NordVPN is interesting because it was less about them handing over data to the government, and them just not being transparent about an attack. All the others in that post clearly were in cahoots with big gov.

NordVPN’s defense was technically coherent: because the company doesn’t store activity logs, no user browsing data was exposed. The breach was framed as a vendor problem. The attacker had gotten in through an insecure remote management system that the data center had left open. NordVPN said it hadn’t even known the system existed.

That may all be accurate. But the eighteen months of silence is the actual story.

proton = poogle (purple google) plus they are an ai company.

you keep referring to “the left” which means you are on “the right” so…

“Why do Americans care if Ford supports Hitler, he’s not even German!”

Interesting combination of lies and unironic use of “cancel culture” in the rest of the nonsense btw.

And doubled down then changed their comments as if the way back machine doesn’t exist in order to backtrack without having to admit they were wrong.

Technically it is true, it makes easier to spread their propaganda in other countries by using bots.

So some of anti-age verification agenda is generated by russia and china etc. to make easier to create bot accounts.