What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Similar issues with Proton CEO, he seems to be a Trump fan.

    Furthermore, I heard it’s generally bad practice to use a VPN provider from your own jurisdiction, AirVPN mentionend above is located in Italy for example and won’t sell any accounts to Italians for that reason.

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      15 hours ago

      How to get downvotes: offend the proton zombie fanboys

      I wasn’t aware that airvpn refused Italian customers, the company definitely has some interesting policies though: including no servers in israel, or russia, and no servers in australia because of our f*cked up internet privacy laws.

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      4 days ago

      the people of this community are proton fanboys and the downvotes prove it. lol

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        15 hours ago

        Proton excel at marketing, they are greenwashing for the privacy crowd.

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      The reason air won’t sell accounts to Italians is because Italy has a law against using technology to view or share pirate soccer broadcasts and air doesn’t want to or can’t prevent people from doing that (also they’re positioned in the marketplace perfectly for piracy and just about nothing else).

      It’s not because they believe or follow the recommendation that a provider be outside the users country of residence. Which is advice that’s situational.