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/

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

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.

apathy is evils best friend

Decent people are boycotting the USA though, because that is the only chance we have to get the people of the USA to snap out of it and care enough to change their society. The same applies here, where Stromberg says it is not that big a deal, it’s just fascism.

If I had any doubts about leaving, the apathy shown in your screenshots from the co-founder has removed them

I don’t live in most countries, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t care, or that developments in them will not affect me. Read about the party, if you have no problem with them, you are the problem.

Good company though, very rare.

He didn’t just donate though, he basically funded it single handed. A quick read about the party suggests that the person in charge is seriously unhinged.

He needs to be bought out of mullvad.

Try being in the southern hemisphere and trying to achieve those goals… servers are scarcer here.

Time for me to reassess ivpn, and airvpn I guess

Co-founder. Very large contribution. Very unsavoury political party.

It is very unfortunate that ev’s and elon are linked in any way, he is not positive marketing.

An issue for those of us in the southern hemisphere, where mullvad is the only decent choice… but one of their founders is clearly not decent.