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Probably various VPNs on the market
Especially Israeli owned VPNs. Which seems to be most of them lately.
Oh yeah definitely
Especially the ones aggressively marketed, or noted as independent when they cannot give concrete evidence for whence their finances and ownership come. Always question and investigate, and make sure trusted people know you do so.
I always assume the more popular it is, the more likely it is of being compromised.
I have no idea if it's the case, but I switched away from mullvad after seeing billboards and ads of it everywhere, even on city infrastructure like trains and buses.
Mullvad is very likely one of the few good ones. I'd suggest reevaluating it.
I have no reason to go back to it, and I switched away from it for the reasons mentioned: its grown very large, and has mainstream ads everywhere now.
If the company is owned by "Kape" its ikely a Israeli honeypot:
https://medium.com/illumination/vpns-the-privacy-trap-4aef67f39634
if it makes you feel better i know an employee there and theyre a communist and say a lot of mullvad employees are lefties too, idk if they have a union or anything. nym vpn has chelsea manning backing it. not really a traditional vpn though its basically unfree tor that is not slow as balls, has the benefit of really good server coverage and few people blocking it. coolest thing is you can use a seedbox to route traffic to pay it down.
Most people only use vpn providers for streaming location hopping, torrenting, p*rn and on public networks. For day to day 24/7 use you are just trusting your VPN provider not to spy on your traffic instead of your ISP.