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I think its also good for Mullvad, they push people towards the 1y plan instead. No one is going to put their payment info in every single month.
They only have a monthly pricing option I believe https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
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You can also easily pay with better anonymity with the Strike app, https://strike.me , which abstracts bitcoin mainnet and lightning network payments behind USD, so you don't have to worry about actually holding bitcoin or managing tax implications. You just use bitcoin as a globally agnostic payment rail, masked with your local fiat, so the price volatility doesn't affect you. Mullvad even gives you a 10% discount f…
"Global payments for the internet" I was intrigued... Then "currently the Strike app is only available in the United States*, El Salvador, and Argentina"
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I think its also good for Mullvad, they push people towards the 1y plan instead. No one is going to put their payment info in every single month.
They only have a monthly pricing option I believe https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
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Banking is highly national. It does not even work very uniformily in SEPA (Single European Payment Area). Of course there are mandatory SEPA features that every bank in every country must support. But there are other national features which are used in some countries by practically all businesses basically making everything incompatible again. And of course there are many countries completely outside of SEPA.
I'm in the US and I'm not familiar with banking elsewhere, but the "bill pay" feature I'm talking about will try some electronic system first, and if the recipient doesn't support it, the bank simply mails a check. The recipient could be as small/offline as any person at a residential address. I assume writing a check and mailing it is a fairly typical thing everywhere, and having the bank do this on a repeating sche…
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A lot of them have been gobbled up by Kape or otherwise proven to keep logs/data when they claim they don't https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...
Oh man I thought Private Internet Access was still one of the independent VPNs. I feel duped. :/
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That's not necessarily true. A lot of state surveillance comes through having backdoor or legal access to lots of services. Many VPNs have been tested in court on whether they actually have information on you to disclose, and some even have independent audits to verify that such information is not even kept.
At best, you can hope to make surveilling you more expensive or more inconvenient. But if Snowden taught us anything, it's that whatever you needed to do to get yourself tangled up in the 5/14 eyes trip-wire, you've already done, long ago, and continue to do. VPNs don't mean shit. You're leaking data everywhere you go. Browser fingerprinting, WiFi/BT signals, cell tower signals, GPS. If you own a smart phone and a cr…
Do they take crypto? I’ve funded some virgin addresses from Tornado Cash notes, running from my own local node Thats sufficient and definitely less cumbersome than Monero.
Yes. [0] " Which payment methods do you accept? We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Giropay, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24. " also Cash "Can I really pay with cash? You bet, and please! Stay anonymous all the way. Just put your cash and payment token (randomly generated on our website) in an envelope and send it to us. We accept the following currenc…
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I also like that they let you download the raw wireguard config files so that you can connect without having to use their client. You can just plop them onto your filesystem and use wg-quick to get going. Since I'm also a ProtonMail user and I considered switching to them for VPN as well but their python client doesn't seem to work correctly on my Arch Linux install and it doesn't give me anything useful to debug it…
I think you can also get the raw wireguard config files for ProtonVPN: https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations/