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1598 sats \ 19 comments \ @kytt 26 Apr privacy

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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.

For privacy, only Tor is acceptable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @frostdragon 26 Apr

exactly this ^

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MarsIronPI 3 May freebie

Yup. OP, why do you want a VPN? Privacy? Then use Tor.

66 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 26 Apr

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

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 27 Apr

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.

66 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 26 Apr

I like https://grapheneos.org/ and the feature to use Orbot (Tor) as a default and only VPN.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 26 Apr

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.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 26 Apr

Never has been, honeypot

Good rule of thumb is not to use a VPN that advertises on billboards in Time Square

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr

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.

1 sat \ 8 replies \ @Hamstr 26 Apr

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

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @nikotsla 26 Apr

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.

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 26 Apr

IVPN accepts lightning. That's why I use them over mullvad, which doesn't.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @sancristrader 26 Apr

You can pay with lightning for Mullvad. There are probably other intermediaries.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr

You can swap from LN to Monero with coinswap.click

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 26 Apr

I need a monero wallet... out of my scope.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr freebie

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 26 Apr

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 26 Apr

I can’t speak to the search warrants. I do use Mullvad for mobile VPN, but I am in no way a VPN expert.