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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
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Shit. So proton vpn it is? Their ceo is also not amazing, I heard. But doesn't sound as bad as this mullvad debacle
dint proton also donated to the far right too.
AirVPN, IVPN, and/or cryptostorm
He had some bad ideas, but hasn't yet been caught financing fascism if i remember correctly
He talked up the Trump administration when he should have known better, but talking them up is not as extreme as funding them. I think. YMMV.
If you’re stupid enough to believe that tripe or cynical enough to spread it you’re on my shit list. He’s either complicit or an idiot, either way not someone I’m giving money
Besides financing fascist YouTube's including a French fascist and the Brazilian son of a dictator who was one of the leaders of a fascist coup.
Besides those.
Proton has done some questionable things as well. The most recent is this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446899
https://www.ivpn.net/ maybe?
About the best we can do perhaps lol
Looks like it might be okay. Price is pretty good. I have time left on my current Mullvad sub, so I'll have to find a new provider in the next 3-4 weeks.
I feel like I've seen AirVPN recommended in the past. Do they have any dark history or security downsides?
I moved to air vpn when mullvad disallowed port forwarding over the vpn and I have been pretty happy. When i looked into security audits it seemed to be the closest to mullvad in quality, while still letting be get a port though the VPN. I did not look into their founders politics. Until reading this today i had still been reccomending mullvad to all my friends that were not hosting stuff and im pretty pissed that i had been doing that now.