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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by pilif on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:49AM (#29904302)
which is true until one or more of their owners decide to sell their shares.
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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by burnaway on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:54AM (#29904335)
my grocer down the road is a nice fella and has tasty vegetables from sustainable sources, but he might get bought up by a big supermarket chain, so I'm not going to buy from him
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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by pilif on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @08:51AM (#29906241)
your grocer does not have the ability to retroactively change the food you've bought from them.

A VPN provider can "accidentally" enable logging prior to the sale

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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by burnaway on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:13AM (#29908514)
if you trust them now with not logging and selling your data, you should trust them not doing anything to screw you over, and giving you sufficient warnings before a sale happens so you can re-evalute that trust. if you don't trust a provider, you shouldn't use them. "i don't trust any VPN providers" is a reasonable position, but your argument saying "all VPNs will end up selling data" is still flawed.
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