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Re:Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters by throw98iuy on Thursday September 04, 2025 @06:35PM (#45133003)
>Mullvad is rather principled on privacy.

no their not. protonvpn spends money to offer free account as form of advertisment. mullvd spend money on weird billboards.

protonvpn provide free privacy even for those from 3rld world country. you can create proton email anonymousley thats also protonvpn account

protonvpn is principled on privacy.

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Re:Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters by jorvi on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:11AM (#45139503)
ProtonVPN is so principled they use a company providing datamining services (Tesonet) to run their VPN.

That doesn't mean they're datamining their customers, but it is terrible optics.

Proton is great, and in many ways they're doing great stuff. But in this case I wouldn't call them principled.

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