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        It’s backed by fascist psychopath Peter Thiel and it, at least for a long time, promoted a crypto scam as a main browser feature.

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          Someone else already talked about mulvad. But you can use wireguard with gluetun, but the configuration is a little annoying as you need to download the configuration file and grab the key from inside the file.

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            Thanks. Will keep that in mind. I’ve spent too much on VPNs recently but when I near subscription lapse(s) I will strongly consider Mullvad.

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          I use Mullvad with Gluetun, works fine? I am currently using docker compose and container network mode for routing traffic through it

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      I don’t know much about Nord’s quality as a service, but I know that they really spearheaded the effort to spread misinformation on how Internet security works (claiming that a VPN would protect the information you enter into a website when HTTPS already does that) via YouTube ad reads. That alone is enough to make me swear off ever using them.

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          Lots of VPNs are actually owned by one company, like Nordvpn and surfshark are both owned by Nord security, lemme find the list…

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        I’m under the impression https can be defeated by a man-in-the-middle attack if you’re not paying attention. Haven’t looked into it recently to be sure if that’s still the case or a solved issue, though. But that was one reason to use a VPN while on untrusted wifi, supposedly.

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          if you are using http yes, any modern website uses https, in most cases vpn will at least prevent dns hijacking (since unecrypted dns is still the default)

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            No, I’m definitely talking about https. Could be this is no longer a thing tho, I need to look it up.

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        Urgh. I use Mullvad, it’s just 5€ per month and so far works great. I hope there’s nothing bad I don’t know about it. lol

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          They are the only VPN company with a clean record but personally only VPN I would trust is onion, garlic etc. kind of networks.

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          Mullvad complies to all legal requests!!

          Which doesn’t matter since they’re properly setup for there to be nothing law enforcement can get out of them.