Would be moving from Mullvad, would appreciate opinions on the current landscape of VPN’s from those who keep a better eye out. TIA.
Would be moving from Mullvad, would appreciate opinions on the current landscape of VPN’s from those who keep a better eye out. TIA.
Well some less than impressive news about the Proton CEO came out pretty recently. I’m a current user and thinking hard about switching to something else.
Lemme go find a link. Here we go, I went down this thread last night:
https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429
Bingo. When I heard about it, figured I would rather ask here.
Meh. Who cares about the political leanings of some CEO. Separate the art from the artist.
When the product is “trust” there is no separation. I do no longer trust the CEO so I will not use the product that relies on that trust.
This reminds me of “Why do people always have to bring politics into this?” Hate to break it to you, but politics is relevant to every facet of life in a civilization. From the food you eat, to the ways you’re able to make a living, to everything else in your life.
Proton is and always was sketchy.
A company claiming “Swiss privacy laws” as their base while de facto operating out of the US is highly problematic. Switzerland has the weakest privacy laws of all European countries, has laws in place for extensive intelligence agency placement within their tech companies and has a history of intelligence agency overreach. The USA can easily make companies and executives do what they want due to the whole Homeland security act clusterfuck.
I wouldn’t touch then with a ten foot pole if data privacy was ones goal.