Doesn't matter what you use. You can't trust anyone with the privacy of your identity.
Use VPNs for what they were meant for - establishing a virtual private network between machines that are a world apart so they can communicate without eavesdroppers. Examples:
your company laptop and the rest of company infrastructure
your mobile phone on vacation and your Bitcoin node sitting in your home network
Or for watching region-locked content on Shitflix.
It's ok as a vpn provider but I wouldn't trust their no-logs policy. I wonder how they built their reputation as a private vpn since they cannot really prove it.
You don't. You are just paying a monero address with a LN transaction.
I find it especially practical when BTC network is congested and the merchant accepts other coins.
Doesn't matter what you use. You can't trust anyone with the privacy of your identity.
Use VPNs for what they were meant for - establishing a virtual private network between machines that are a world apart so they can communicate without eavesdroppers. Examples:
Or for watching region-locked content on Shitflix.
For privacy, only Tor is acceptable.
Yup. OP, why do you want a VPN? Privacy? Then use Tor.
exactly this ^
They were subjected to a search warrant last year but there was no customer data to hand over.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request
They’ve also since switched to a RAM only VPN infrastructure so data should never be persisted.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-our-migration-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure
That's what they say officially, and you have to trust that they aren't under a gag order not to disclose that they are actually logging users' IPs.
I like https://grapheneos.org/ and the feature to use Orbot (Tor) as a default and only VPN.
Orbot is great. So is GrapheneOS. You can use Orbot without Graphene.
Orbot.
It allows you to route certain app's traffic through Tor even if they don't natively support tor. This is a great app to use with Nostr apps btw.
Never has been, honeypot
Good rule of thumb is not to use a VPN that advertises on billboards in Time Square
It's ok as a vpn provider but I wouldn't trust their no-logs policy. I wonder how they built their reputation as a private vpn since they cannot really prove it.
Umm, I think IVPN is good, they don't keep logs and accept BTC, XMR and i think USDT. They give you a cryptographic key- similarly, like nostr
BTC on chain... so you need to plan to pay less fee, a LN payment could be a good feature to add from their side.
IVPN accepts lightning. That's why I use them over mullvad, which doesn't.
You can pay with lightning for Mullvad. There are probably other intermediaries.
You can swap from LN to Monero with coinswap.click
I need a monero wallet... out of my scope.
You don't. You are just paying a monero address with a LN transaction. I find it especially practical when BTC network is congested and the merchant accepts other coins.
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I can’t speak to the search warrants. I do use Mullvad for mobile VPN, but I am in no way a VPN expert.