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"The people" value different things depending on who they are. I'm sure you can find Russians who value liberty and peace, and I'm sure you can find Americans (or Germans, or Canadians, or Australian Aboriginals) who don't.
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> I would love to just plunk down 20 euros and be good for the foreseeable future Simple, buy the number of gift vouchers on Amazon that meets your budget. There is no limit on the number of gift vouchers you can apply to a single account.
But it's still 5 euros a month, right? I thought OP was saying there was some sort pay by the minute/hour/day pricing.
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Yup. As a Cuban, sometimes it is annoying and sometimes go beyond that. Some cloud providers are totally off limits for us, some are fine with us (the minority and less known), some let us use some services but no others, some even have valid OFAC licenses but still deny access (because ACL complexities, I suppose)... it's all over the place. That's why I'm 95% of the time on crappy VPNs both to escape/evade US sanct…
> Anyway, and sadly, the sanctions affect "regular" people like me the most. The ruling elite? Not at all. This confirms my secondhand knowledge of financial sanctions. It seems to universally be this way and makes me wonder why we still tout them as if they were effective. They sure don’t seem to be.
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I am speechless; I can think of a dozen or so glib responses to put down this line of reasoning in a combative way. I will do my best to go against that instinct and instead say; 1) I don't believe necessarily that Crimeans are "Russian" 2) I don't believe that we can talk about a countries people as being homogeneous. 3) I don't believe we should be deciding what liberty people should be entitled to, that feels deci…
I really respect how Mullvad is willing to sacrifice business to give extra security and reliability to the (remaining) customers. I first saw it when they disabled auto-renewal with PayPal, because it'd force them to store PII along with your account. Unfortunately for me, they made one too many sacrifices, and disabled port forwarding[1]. They don't store any contact information that could be used to warn customers…
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Isn’t trading with certain states like sanctioning of how they treat their population? Withholding trade seems fair. We don’t want to deal with you because you start murderous wars for example seems fair. As for “multi polarity”.. seems so far like the catchphrase of shitty governments and unhappy people here that dream of some radical change.. It’s a false word somehow
The only time I've heard the expression about multipolar was from Chinese and Russian Foreign Minister playbook. Add "NATO", "Russophobia", "Nazis", "Western" and other keywords in the soup and you have the perfect anti-Western speech. It's not even a Western tool. Sanctions are a tool to refuse to trade with opponent regimes, and it works both ways (China has sanctions on the West too, for example on semiconductors.…
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> In April 2023, the Australian government released their 2023 national review where it is outright stated that the age of American unipolarity and primacy in the Indo- Pacific is effectively over, paving way to great power competition and a more fractious world order.
It's new to me that Australia is known to spread Russo-Chinese propaganda either.
I really respect how Mullvad is willing to sacrifice business to give extra security and reliability to the (remaining) customers. I first saw it when they disabled auto-renewal with PayPal, because it'd force them to store PII along with your account. Unfortunately for me, they made one too many sacrifices, and disabled port forwarding[1]. They don't store any contact information that could be used to warn customers…
Announcing the removal of a feature such as this a mere 30 days ahead is not how we like to conduct our business in the general case. I expect those of our customers who relied on this feature to be disappointed by its removal as well as the manner in which it was done.
Nevertheless it was the right thing to do. The manner and extent in which it came to be abused in recent months made it unacceptable for us to continue providing it. This feature should have been removed a long time ago, with a longer grace period. It wasn't - a mistake on our part - and some of our users suffered for it, including you. For this I am sorry.
Affected customers can get their money back for any prepaid service they can not use, of course.
If you used port forwarding to (I) make a service reachable (II) from the open Internet there are plenty of good hosting providers which will happily take your business.
If you used port forwarding to (III) stay anonymous while (I) making a service reachable we can highly recommend Tor's "onion service" feature. It was built with that use case in mind.
If you used port forwarding to (III) stay anonymous while (I) making a service reachable (II) from the open Internet, there are no good options that we can recommend.
Port forwarding needed to be removed on moral grounds. It needed to be removed because it was causing too much of a disturbance to our core mission of making mass surveillance and censorship ineffective.
I hope my explanation has - if not allayed your disappointment - at least provided some clarity.
Best regards, Fredrik Stromberg (cofounder of Mullvad VPN)
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Bit of a generalisation there, how many of us in the west were against and protested against the various wars we’ve been involved in and been basically just ignored because the government just does what it wants?
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Yup. As a Cuban, sometimes it is annoying and sometimes go beyond that. Some cloud providers are totally off limits for us, some are fine with us (the minority and less known), some let us use some services but no others, some even have valid OFAC licenses but still deny access (because ACL complexities, I suppose)... it's all over the place. That's why I'm 95% of the time on crappy VPNs both to escape/evade US sanct…
Funny how everyone talks about the Chinese "great firewall" that blocks access towards some western platforms from China, and no one talks about "USA great firewall" that blocks Cuban citizen from acceding to a lot of services