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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by capableweb on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:26AM (#29837445)
Private Internet Access (PIA) is involved in the whole Freenode fiasco, and has Mark Karpelès (of Mt Gox fame) as their CTO of the parent company. They also run ads all over the internet. Everything pointing towards just caring about the profits.

Mullvad is a low-profile company based in Sweden (strong guarantees for privacy) where you can even sign up by sending cash in an envelope. It doesn't get more anonymous than that.

On the technical side, I've been using Mullvad since probably 2012 or something like that, and lately just their Wireguard implementation. Always have had good performance and never received any complaints, even though I have used it for torrenting and bunch of grey-area stuff.

Edit: I see now the author has even highlighted PIA as their "top pick", which for me compromises the integrity of this list. PIA most likely paid the author to add that for them.

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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by gbrindisi on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:05AM (#29838629)
> Mullvad is a low-profile company based in Sweden (strong guarantees for privacy)

What do you mean? Sweden is not at all a strong guarantee of privacy by EU standards.

Did you mean Switzerland perhaps?

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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by latexr on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:32AM (#29838866)
The address at the bottom of their website[1] confirms it’s Sweden.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/

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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by 4ggr0 on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:01AM (#29838598)
I use ProtonVPN myself and am quite happy with it. Lots of countries to choose from, in-built ad- and tracking-blocker and SecureCores which route you through multiple VPN nodes instead of one.

Disclaimer: I don't work at Proton and I have no idea if they actually do care about privacy, they at least say it.

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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by idontwantthis on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:12AM (#29838158)
Can you stream US only like HBO and Hulu with Mulvad?
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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by zinekeller on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:32AM (#29838336)
Unfortunately, often not. Unlike other VPNs which tries to blend into residential connections, Mullavad is simply for user privacy and oftentimes is known as AS39351 (which is 31173's AS - https://www.31173.se/). Note that this simply means that a particular user was using Mullavad, not that it identifies a specific user.
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