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if it's free you're the product
I believe that many people who use Tor do not understand its nuances or limitations either.
... and Mullvad is even worse when it comes to consumers understanding what it does and does not do.
This depends on the country you are in. In SE it is probably better to use a VPN, in other countries the VPN can be an extra layer that won't bring you much protection (and could put you in trouble, as in the OP: how can you be sure than no heavy logging is done and kept unsecurely for nobody knows how many years?).
I'd guess it was based on EU regulation.
Mullvad (if I were to guess) has a lot more knowledgable users compared to most VPNs, due to them not really doing mainstream advertising. But anyway - it dosen't matter
except germany. believe me!
if most of them suck, which ones are the really good ones?
Mullvad
and IVPN
assessments on AzireVPN and ovpn.com please.
sold out to umbrella corp a few weeks ago, i do not recommend using it.
i know very little about this provider.
communists?
not aware of that, spoke to them multiple times(even today for that matter), very chill guys.
their team is primarily from post-soviet countries, so im sure they hate communism, like anyone who was forced to be under it.
https://www.allabolag.se/5590894175/netbouncer-ab
Very small, going by their total revnue, a one man show
Mullvad or IVPN which provider should i try first?
is it possible to run both with the native wireguard program or does it need their own software? that would then be an exclusion criterion for me.
Welcome back @William
I'm not William, lol...
never used it, no problem
these are even small companies. in germany there is an isp in frankfurt which protects banks from ddos and is even recommended by the german federation in a list along with 15 other service providers. they used to earn a lot of money through various not so legal "projects", cybercrime, a very popular filehoster and warez sites.
then there is another isp, also in frankfurt. they used to do a lot of cybercrime, too, or via advertising networks for warez sites (some of them run by themselves) and they are also known for their ddos-protection.
the biggest tier-2 carrier in germany (at that time a small isp, which also did a lot in the area of gameservers). was completely financed by warez. they raised the biggest filehoster ever and promised the operator "kick secure" hosting. they helped to build uploadbots, build and finance topsites in the background, attack competing warezsites and build abusebots etc.
but none of them ended up in court
Not being William doesn't mean that you don't have the knowledge provided by him.
Great share. But let me tell you that Voxility (was connected with Santrex also
)
did i read frankfurt am main? that catches my attention. which provider(s) are we talking about?
Hetz...ner?
...frankfurt based. aha.
I mean, sure... a lot of German providers profited off of warez and file hosts, but the same could be said for the Dutch providers, too... except at least in Germany, FC technically ended up in court, although walked away scot-free, in spite Kino, and then you had Skyload and Duckload, too... whereas in the Netherlands NForce and co. were never held responsible for anything.
sorta, they kinda kicked their old management and replaced it with "corpo-safe" one.
nforce is not what it used to be
NForce got sold to porn people a while back who have no interest in anything other than keeping their sites up. Otherwise they wouldn't have changed anything...
try whichever one you want.
you can use their apps, but you do not have to.
you can generate wireguard configs on site.
What about NordVPN? Are all the 'audits' these VPN providers do, are they useless?
umrella corp, they are ran behind 3 offshore companies and lied about relations to them. they were also believed to run surfshark that coincidentally "merged" with them later on.
trackers on site and in applications, even if Nord doesn't snitch on you, Google Analytics surely will
they were compromised in the past, at least a few servers.
and of course, deceptive marketing.
i can't give more hints
profited means something like you have a lot of customers who use their server to run warez sites, filehoster, filesharing or anything else which is normal if the servers and the bandwidth are cheap or the legal conditions of the location allow it. but as a company you don't do it yourself
but running your own warez sites, partly creating your own warez (running topsites, including many paylines that simply had a different masterserver, but accessed the same slaves), running your own filehosts via bogus companies, create subscription traps, writing bots that re-upload everything on abuse, hacking competitors or ddosing them, writing/distributing malware, building botnets, having "employees" who actually work black and get their money tax-free on the hand, being involved in various money laundering and tax evasion methods, issuing false invoices for b2b service providers etc. is then already a little more
nforce is also directly involved in several "projects" directly, just like grafix or euroaccess used to be