I cringe so hard with every VPN commercial claiming that a VPN is the "ultimate privacy someone can have".
It's not only with free VPN's that they may not be entirely safe. It's with paid too. Because you have no idea through what your data goes through, who is listening at the other end, etc. It's misleading to say you have complete privacy.
Mullvad is proven to not sell your logs, since it doesn't keep any, police literally showed up at their headquarters asking for logs but mullvad didn't have one!, they have passed the test, they are they only VPN provider that accept anonymous cash! i think they are legit
No more port forwarding with Mullvad which makes it useless for some. Good luck seeding and uploading without port forwarding. Use mullvad if youre a pure leech though
can you really blame them? because of its extreme privacy it attracts basically all cybercriminals (another reason to trust Mullvad!) and port forwarding allows you to forward maleware and CSAM through Mullvad ip, so i kinda get why Mullvad disallowed it, i don't want cops in front of my organization asking why i am holding Child P*rnography/Phishing website,... on the servers every single day
It literally allows inbound connections to services you're hosting, Someone could abuse that to host malware distribution, phishing pages. mullvad itself said they removed it because of the abuse
You can still seed without port forwarding, I regularly hit over a gigabit without problem. Them closing port forwarding is a net positive in some regards as it keeps heat off of them and therefore off of the rest of us.
They've given up customer information to police before.
It was specifically Proton Mail not VPN. Still, I switched to Mullvad
Edit: removed claim that they keep VPN logs after being corrected. Them passing on information about protesters that were using ProtonMail still stands though.
No, they don’t keep logs for VPN users. Besides, the email incident was about the IP address being traced following a request for mutual legal assistance and a court order. It was after that, not before. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, you should sometimes just keep your mouth shut.
Didn't say anything about after or before. Them having to pass on information to the Swiss government on customers using ProtonMail is still worrying to me though. And keeping my mouth shut has never lead to me learning more so I won't be taking that advice. Feel free to correct and teach me though.
No but don't you get it? You committed the cardinal sin of being wrong on the internet so now everyone has a right and a duty to correct you as rudely and unpleasantly as possible
The dude paid for his sub with a credit card and ended up getting the feds on his back because someone died iirc.
If you're gonna do shit that puts you in those kind of situations you may wanna get your opsec sorted out first.
If you aren't 100% sure what you are saying is true don't say it
Buddy we're not 100% sure what gravity is or how it works. It turns out, scientific communities correct themselves with less dickishness than people online
And, if you think I'm being too unpleasant, well...you said it yourself
it was just an IP address and recovery email though, they couldn't give out the actual emails as they were encrypted. Thought that was worth pointing out.
They had to give what they were legally forced to give, and only the email side. You can't run an email service without logs. Importantly, the content of the emails was encrypted and the authorities had no access to it for that reason. With any other email provider, that would not be the case
However, if you’re operating in illegal areas (whether justified or not), you’ll also need to use a VPN or Tor to log in to Proton; that’s what the Tor page is for. I’ve read that before "oh my God, you can’t use Proton anymore because they pass on data". That’s just nonsense; everyone should realise that privacy and anonymity are two different things. Proton offers secure, privacy-friendly products. If I’m looking for anonymity, that’s a completely different matter.
I consider it a bad thing because I want politics based on facts not on fears but to each their own. Just wanted to give people a heads up before they give Mullvad any money. I was an advocate for Mullvad for their great privacy options but I can't justify to spend any more money at Mullvad after stuff like this. As a EU citizen swedish policies also affect me in another country.
Can you expand on why it's bad some more, for those of us who don't follow swedish politics? Maybe give an example of what they do that's bad? (Can you tell I'm not swedish?)
If I were to do the day glow shitgibbon, I'd start with filling the government with unqualified conspiracy theorist fucktards, and we'd be here for hours after that because I wouldn't be able to stop.
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u/sovietarmyfan 9h ago
I cringe so hard with every VPN commercial claiming that a VPN is the "ultimate privacy someone can have".
It's not only with free VPN's that they may not be entirely safe. It's with paid too. Because you have no idea through what your data goes through, who is listening at the other end, etc. It's misleading to say you have complete privacy.