Of the big VPNs, the only one's that have ever felt shady to me are NordVPN and Private Internet Access. NordVPN because of the sheer amount of false advertising they pay YouTubers to do, and Private Internet Access because of how cheap they are and how poorly they maintain their infrastructure. Their .ovpn generated files haven't worked for 2+ years now because they include certificates with malformed revocation dates, and refuse to pay the certificate authority to update them.
Yep. And I use the VPN connection (and/or TOR) to re-up my Mullvad VPN when I run low.
Mostly I use the VPN to protect my privacy when posting with a throwaway account here and/or other sites. And of course for torrenting.
What's more, I had some monero (XMR) left over from some other transactions, so I use that to pay for the VPN connection.
As such, unless Mullvad is storing the IP address from which I connect (and they claim they do not), it would be difficult (but not impossible -- I don't always use VPN when posting anonymously/throwaway -- that isn't a challenge!) to identify me through my VPN connections.
What's the data/IP/etc retention logging situation of HN? Do they have a page on it?
no their not. protonvpn spends money to offer free account as form of advertisment. mullvd spend money on weird billboards.
protonvpn provide free privacy even for those from 3rld world country. you can create proton email anonymousley thats also protonvpn account
protonvpn is principled on privacy.
That doesn't mean they're datamining their customers, but it is terrible optics.
Proton is great, and in many ways they're doing great stuff. But in this case I wouldn't call them principled.
