People flock If the interface is difficult to use then yes, that will keep people away, but that also makes it a daft design (or a very clever one I guess) I’m not sure if the issue is problematic instances, more likely problematic people especially when/if they become the norm. I’m new here, too early to form an opinion, but this isn’t the 1st social media, and they didn’t all necessarily start out bad.
No data should be exchanged with the US, unless memes taking the piss out of the US are considered data, then yes sure, lots.
Orbital politicians, and billionaires are a hella cool idea though
““Do I really care if I’m getting the really cool olive oil brand?” Jones said.”
Jones should open their eyes, use their brain and buy the grapeseed oil instead. Jones should also have a first name.
More people here will equal a better experience, until there are too many people here and it goes basically the same way as all who came before it.
But at least this isn’t run by a dodgy company (as far as I know/yet)
I added 4 months about a week ago, applied for a refund today, and it was approved today. I believe the only chance we have of mullvad removing the ahole is a mass of refunds, customers need to show they care. My timing was of course very lucky in this respect.
My first vpn provider was called vpnarea, had them for a few years, and ended up paying for a 2, or 3 year discounted block, before they vanished and took my money with them.
I appreciate that mullvad doesn’t do any of that ‘60% off’ bs, and I can/could just pay for 3 months, or 5 months, or whatever
it’s a trash industry, decent resources are very difficult to find, everyone is recommending nord etc with affiliate links, heaps of vpn company sites lack pertinent details, have servers in countries they shouldn’t, or don’t have servers where they should, are owned, or based in dodgy countries etc etc. Many of them appear to suck for linux completely, or unless you are using vanilla ubuntu, or fedora etc
somewhat handy(ish) https://embed.kumu.io/9ced55e897e74fd807be51990b26b415#vpn-company-relationships
less handy, but still https://www.vpnlocations.info/
evil things, especially when you are new to the site, have no idea and are posting, but no one can ever see your posts.
They do that to me for fun apparently.
Most social media needs curating, and the ability to view only your own feed (following etc) reddit isn’t alone in having a ton of crap on it, that happens to all in time. It can be useful, but reddit is still mainly trash.
Unless that is just an old.reddit thing, that does not appear to be the case
reddit have banned me multiple times, for no reason, and for reasons that they make up. I occasionally stumble on my old posts with user just listed as ‘deleted’
Reddit would like to be the only evil entity scraping reddit
The vast majority of vpn servers are in the northern hemisphere, a very, very long way away from Australia
Servers in Australia only make a certain amount of sense due to our fascist governments internet restrictions ie: connecting to an Australian server and using social media = having to supply ID to that social media platform. While this does not apply to all social media platforms, it is expected to in time. (the restrictions only came in last year). I’m expecting them to try to ban vpns in future as well, but thankfully they are morons.
airvpn is possibly feasible via their cli suite, but their gui that looks like it comes from 1997 and lacks split tunnelling, its also AUR, not official repos. I would definitely prefer gui, and not having to f around with a manual install etc. Been there, done that in the past.
ivpn currently failing to install on my system (not something that has occurred previously), and they do have a lack of servers. They have 1 server listed in Malaysia, and 1 in South Africa. 99% of their servers are in the northern hemisphere.
Given a base speed of approx 100Mbps here, it doesn’t take much of a drop these days to be noticeable. Previous connections via proton, and then via mullvad showed northern hemisphere servers, and even some southern hemisphere servers to be a bad idea.
New Zealand is the sweet spot, for now.
I have spent the day looking into alternate vpns again, and airvpn and ivpn are the only 2 that even come to close to ticking the boxes, just as they did when I was looking last year.
Mullvad was the only one that ticked all of the boxes Decent amount of servers, and locations. Good linux gui (now on official repos) Good android gui (f-droid) Split tunnelling on linux and android Browser extensions (speed hit, but really handy) No logs
I would hope that the mullvad staff are completely opposed to fascism, it would be naive to believe that is true of all of them though. I have no interest in them losing their jobs (except for the fascists of course), or in the company failing. But it would be dishonest to continue supporting mullvad now, while long term not supporting companies such as unilever, monsanto, nestle, amazon etc etc. Mullvad are no doubt in a bit of a crisis right now, but I do not believe they have responded well to this… they posted on nazi twitter, but not on mastodon, or bluesky for instance. I’m currently looking into alternative vpn options, and don’t have a single one that ticks the boxes. This sucks, my government (australia) has serious overreach/privacy issues, and is very clearly in the pocket of the usa, and israel.
Many options, so much dodgy. https://embed.kumu.io/9ced55e897e74fd807be51990b26b415#vpn-company-relationships
Maybe you agree with windscribe, maybe you just ignore the reality.
They are chasing votes from self absorbed people, it has always been a thing, but more people are getting into the scam globally now.
A very small percentage of vpns can be classed as decent, especially if you are in the southern hemisphere. I requested my refund from mullvad today, my replacement option is?
That depends on what the company does. If he refuses to be removed from the company, there is very little they can do about him. I just sent off my refund request for my recent payment/extension.
If you are lucky, not uranus