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Re: We are removing the option to create new subscriptions

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Post by anonporridge »

mderazon wrote: post #245
anonporridge wrote: post #221

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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"

I also dismiss a project when it's still nascent. /s

Also, "Global payments for the internet" is really referring to bitcoin, not strike.

Strike isn't doing the magic here. It's just one of many possible APIs that can be built on top of bitcoin and the bitcoin lightning network. If you integrate with Strike with your company, anyone else on the planet with any other kind of bitcoin wallet can pay you.

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Post by sdfhdhjdw3 »

blakewatson wrote: post #177
nijave wrote: post #165

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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. :/

That's two of us. I used NordVPN for years. Not any more.

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Post by sdfhdhjdw3 »

MertsA wrote: post #361
BlueTankEngine wrote: post #306

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PIA continues to prove in court over and over again that they do not keep traffic logs. The extreme fear mongering over Kape has never been backed up by any evidence other than "they used to do bad things under their previous management." As I always say in these threads, all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a s…

>all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a specialty product like p2p or bypassing national firewalls. On the contrary. Mullvad gives you more flexibility than PIA in that regard and doesn't limit you to whatever features are built into the client like PIA does. You can build tunnels to whatever endpoint in whichev…

Where can I learn more about this p2p thing?

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Post by rebelpixel »

contravariant wrote: post #176
mig39 wrote: post #6

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?

I normally don't use VPNs, so please correct me if I am wrong.

I think from a law enforcement/accountability standpoint, if an "actor" is accused of wrongdoing while using Mullvad's port forwarding service, Mullvad might have some evidence linking the "actor" to an actual identity, since they have the payment information. Depending on the laws of whatever territories, Mullvad may be compelled to leak that info to a judge. Without that information, then there's no information they can ever be forced to leak.

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Post by wpietri »

bigiain wrote: post #316
tomnipotent wrote: post #300

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Absolutely there's cost to the business even if you don't use the service. There's marketing, salary, healthcare, leases, and any other number of expenses. Gym's pay rent regardless of you showing up. Netflix still has pay for content you don't watch. The entire point of a subscription model is that a business can offer a steeply discounted price vs. pay-as-you-go in exchange for predictable, recurring revenue. That'…

> Gym's pay rent regardless of you showing up. In my opinion, that's the industry (at least here in .au) that are the poster-child worst example of dark patterns in manipulative subscription charging. They are infamous here for doing fucked up things in an attempt to make it as difficult as possible to cancel your subscription. I had one friend who moved overseas, discovered his gym was still billing him monthly even…

That's a really good example of the sort of exploitative thinking I'm talking about. They clearly knew what they were doing. As do all the companies who let you sign up easily, but where cancellation requires filing a form "in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'" and then spending 30 minutes on the phone with an obtuse and obstreperous call center rep.

And it's all just such a waste for everybody. The first gym I joined was run by a very dedicated muscle-head who was at his gym a fair bit. You signed up for a fixed period, like a week or a month or a quarter. At the end of the period, you could renew if you wanted. And if you weren't coming to the gym often enough, he'd ask why you weren't coming. He believed in his product and wanted people to be successful at his gym.

But I'd guess part of the reason that doesn't dominate is that awful gym companies sucker people in, do everything they can to become credit card parasites, and then spend a lot of the extra money on marketing and on giving people good-looking deals that they know they won't use.

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Post by fidelramos »

nottorp wrote: post #391
fidelramos wrote: post #377

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Bitcoin Cash does currently scale up to Paypal's daily number of transactions while keeping transaction fees below $0.01. [0] Scalability tests are underway [1] to detect bottlenecks for increasing the block size further, which should take it closer to Visa's transaction capacity. The scalability roadmap aims for eventually supporting 50 daily transactions for each human in the planet, again keeping fees low, which i…

> Bitcoin Cash does currently scale up to Paypal's daily number of transactions while keeping transaction fees below $0.01. On this here website there was a talk a couple months ago that led me to believe that paying $150 worth of bitcoin costs ... $150 if you want it done at credit card speed. Have things changed?

Without any other information I must suppose you are talking about Bitcoin (BTC), which has limited scalability and therefore high transaction fees when there is high demand. Bitcoin Cash BCH has low fees, below $0.01 as I mentioned.

You can see a graph of historic average transaction fees at https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-bch...

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Post by gesman »

donkarma wrote: post #368
gesman wrote: post #305

Tip: This portable secure travel router supports MullVad (and Azire-VPN) out of the box: https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT1300-Wireless-Pocket-Siz... Just input your Mullvad account number and it will upload all WireGuard configurations for all MullVad servers worldwide automatically. Perfect to use to connect to any unsecure Wi-Fi and drive all traffic via VPN in hotels, airports, coffee shops, etc...

I'd pay a lot of money for an Ethernet device that sits between the jack and the router that would make a tunnel for me. Is that what this is for WiFi??

It sits between your router and your endpoints (computers, laptops).

It can connect directly via ethernet cable or broadcast it's own WiFi SSID's to which you can connect.

You configure it to always connect to VPN of your choice using OpenVPN or WireGuard protocols.

Then you may connect to this device SSID and your traffic always be routed via VPN connection. This is way better, secure and more reliable than "VPN software" or "VPN apps" solutions.

Not sure if i answered your question?

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Post by mderazon »

anonporridge wrote: post #411
mderazon wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Global payments for the internet" I was intrigued... Then "currently the Strike app is only available in the United States*, El Salvador, and Argentina"

I also dismiss a project when it's still nascent. /s Also, "Global payments for the internet" is really referring to bitcoin, not strike. Strike isn't doing the magic here. It's just one of many possible APIs that can be built on top of bitcoin and the bitcoin lightning network. If you integrate with Strike with your company, anyone else on the planet with any other kind of bitcoin wallet can pay you.

Okay, however I have yet to see any crypto project that even comes close to solving borderless money transfers, although a lot of them claim to.

This is unfortunate as that market is ripe for disruption

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Post by dcow »

erellsworth wrote: post #388
dcow wrote: post #116

Why are VPNs what people flock to when they think they want privacy? Moreover they kinda break the internet so it's not a scalable solution. It's cool to see a good one selling a privacy message and doing it at level 11, but it seems kinda disingenuous to me to tell users that they're more private because they use a VPN. Private from your current ISP, sure, but not from Mullvad (they're your new ISP, you're just movi…

What do you flock to when you want privacy?

Browser and system configuration. Turn off tracking cookies, advertiser IDs, block tracking links/assets. I use a municipal ISP that doesn't sell my info. Stuff like that. But really I know that I'm not private from the services I access so I try to gravitate towards services that I trust with my personal information. My goal is not to make sure nothing ever lands in my advertising profile. It's to make sure that whatever my profile is looks so unlike my interests that it becomes a useless waste of money to build it.
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