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I tried Mulvad, I love their outlook on privacy. However, maybe this is just my experience but the speed I was getting with Mulvad was slow, for some reason. Much slower than my regular ~200 mbps connection. Had to switch back to Nord (would not recommend it, though) again.
Its almost the same in terms of privacy protections.
I like this a lot even though my primary reason is unexpected subscription renewal. I started a membership site and tried to use every single thing I would want as a customer. One of the things was a reminder that my yearly membership was about to expire, and by doing nothing this would indeed happen. No automatic renewal (but keeping the account in an inactive state). Confident customers can renew for 3 years with a…
I can't renew my plan. As I forgot my account number :(
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It's just one of the many layers of good opsec of you care about privacy. You shouldn't rely on this alone. And breaking the internet? I think centralisation by parties like Amazon, Google, CloudFlare does that a lot more. And if you want you can even send them cash in an envelope. Or monero or whatever.
I don't disagree that centralized services are also bad for the internet, but that's not a rebuttal to my point (also, what is a VPN service if not a "centralized ISP with different egress options"). A VPN does not add a layer of privacy. That's a misunderstanding of the concept and unfortunately a popular one even among security folks and even more-so among security marketing folks. A VPN allows you to effectively c…
Because perfect is the enemy of good. Mulvad would lose customers and that is not good for Mulvad, nor for the customer.
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It also stops sites you visit from seeing your real IP.
Sure but with fingerprinting that's only a minor nuisance to most advertisers and sites who are tracking you.
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I've always loved that Mullvad wouldn't let you accidentally compromise your own security. For example, the port-forwarding feature won't work if you have a recurring subscription. This just extends that kind of thinking to the service in general. Been a Mullvad customer for a long time now, and it's always been awesome.
What's the exact reasoning behind that? How does paying via paypall impact the privacy of a forwarded port? Is this something to do with state-level actors?
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It's just one of the many layers of good opsec of you care about privacy. You shouldn't rely on this alone. And breaking the internet? I think centralisation by parties like Amazon, Google, CloudFlare does that a lot more. And if you want you can even send them cash in an envelope. Or monero or whatever.
I don't disagree that centralized services are also bad for the internet, but that's not a rebuttal to my point (also, what is a VPN service if not a "centralized ISP with different egress options"). A VPN does not add a layer of privacy. That's a misunderstanding of the concept and unfortunately a popular one even among security folks and even more-so among security marketing folks. A VPN allows you to effectively c…
Beyond location, did you know there are services that can sometimes accurately provide a users place of work based on home IP? Their likely income level, and more. That becomes impossible with a VPN.
In short a VPN removes a key personal identifier that can be used to ID you online. Your IP address.
1) it doesn't cost mullvad very much to not autorenew subscriptions. People dont forget to renew their subscriptions to a service that breaks your connection to youtube when you forget to pay. It's closer to the world of warcraft model.
2) Customers are now rightfully wary of renewing subscriptions. Given horror stories of how difficult it is to cancel your subscription to a service, I suspect that you lose upwards of 50% of potential customers if you only offer subscription models.
3) No VPN has any incentive at all to "protect your privacy". It is perfectly legal for them to lie to you about not keeping logs and then turn them over to state actors, provided they are operating out of the right state. In fact, state actors would encourage such a thing. Perhaps some of these VPNs do something to protect your privacy, but it is not because they are incentivized to.