cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892
(original article in Swedish that reported this)
Posting this because I hadn't heard about it before and I'm probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.
The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]
The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.
Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)
Even if you're comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.
I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it's not great
I have used servers in many countries in the past with poor results. New Zealand is the ideal for me (it's not an ideal world of course).
My base internet is approx 100Mbps, speed drops are noticeable these days, even though 30Mbps was easily decent enough in the past.
Singapore is always an option (one of few), but would need to be tested.
ovpn is not linux friendly,I believe they have an app for ubuntu, but nothing else. Can of course do manual settings, but ytf should I?
I really would have liked to have been able to use mullvad for a few years at least, only switched over form proton last year, and only switched to proton because my previous vpn compnay vanished with my money.
Personally, if I was worried enough about various tracking, I'd want to use the configs with known vetted third party FLOSS apps vs their own built app. For instance, one of the concerns with SurfShark in those sites is the app isn't vetted and has some custom analytics. Using openVPN plus configs kills app level analytics.
IDK how much I ought to or should not trust any VPN provider, but for what I need, SurfShark has been great and pretty cheap, though for other reasons I'm a bit disappointed no port forwarding. I would use other tech than commercial VPNs for "deep" privacy.
surfshark (apparently) having tracking was enough to make me not bother looking much further into them. With so many choices, the easiest way is to omit those who seem problematic (kape, 87% off!!!, logs, tracking etc)
Yea, it's just that every one has something problematic IMO. So for say torrents cheap and available is worth more than an app I don't have to use. I of course don't know a about if say PIA is better or whatever.
Prior to one of mullvads ceo's being outed as a nazi, they didn't appear to have anything wrong with them at all. Good history, policies, and software. ivpn and airvpn appear to be the only other legitimate choices to me, especially is you are northern hemisphere and a windows user, as most people are. Southern hemisphere and linux it is a bit trickier.
Oh, I keep windscribe for general purpose unimportant stuff. They have servers all over the place. No clue how well they hold up, only ever used em for geofencing bypass with scripts.
They’re running a sale on whatever their pro service is and that gets you nz servers.
I can fire up their app in a little bit and see how it works, what distribution are you running?
I'm on manjaro kde
Windscribe has their app on the AUR, I would rather it was on official (like mullvad) but that is really asking too much, not a huge dealbreaker.
From memory the app was okay. I tried their free, but then they didn't verify my email or something so the paid didn't work, resulting customer service and other online interactions have been weird though, both the owner and the ai customer service. Windscribe is also reported to have had a security issue where they were searched or whatever, and failed (they apparently had user data), the owner is also reported to be a transphobe - grain of salt with both of those, I haven't verified them.
i just did new testing (speedtest) with mullvad: singapore and malaysia were both decent enough, although a high ping with malaysia. indonesia, philippines, and thailand were also decent enough speedwise.
Singapore appears a feasible alternative (at least the mullvad servers), have not found mention of their privacy etc laws yet though. Malaysia occasionally pops up on 'best locations' lists.
Yeah windscribe is probably the only business I’ve ever described as a Mickey Mouse operation.