The amount of hate on mullvad for what they openly acknowledged was a personal donation from someone who was a founder sure does seem like it’s astroturfing against an otherwise solid vpn provider with a better trackrecord and more transparency then most.
Seems like the Same sort of ppl who would pay for services with a bank card and then be shocked when that links them to an account.
What do these people want? Should Mullvad fire this person? On what grounds? Do people honestly think companies should have a say over what their employees or members spend their personal money on? That seems like a fascist attitude to me.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’m glad i left Mullvad behind when they stopped supporting port forwarding.
Can someone catch me up, I thought people liked Mullvad… but this thread seems to suggest otherwise. What did I miss?
The reason why I use a VPN is to protect myself from people like the co-founder of Mullvad. So you see how this can cause a conflict…
“societies need a great diversity of ideas, initiatives and organizations who can be tested and sifted until the best ones remain” -Mullvad.
This apparently includes nazi ideas
Doesn’t matter, when my subscription expires I will be moving on to a non-nazi-loving VPN provider
Likewise. Bought a three-month sub so’s that I wouldn’t have to top it up too often, and then they came out with all that shit. Subscription expires in two days - forever. Hello, iVPN.
Don’t forget everyone, your money might end up in far right Swedish parties.
Once my current subscription expires, I will never buy their vpn and switch to another provider.
Torguard is my weapon of choice for a decade now.
Funny, I’ve been having a lot of problems with Mullvad DNS so I just switched to Quad9.
Fuck Mullvad
Been using next DNS free DNS. They get overloaded sometimes but usually work fine.
It’s a shame one of the founders funds Nazis now, I won’t be renewing
Funny how someone can be just a normal right wing or even center-right and you dumb bitches call everyone a Nazi that doesn’t think exactly like you. Bunch of hive mind idiots lmao.
Don’t condone Nazi shit if you don’t wanna be called a Nazi.
Advocating for remigration is unquestionably far right, which the founder has done. Unless you yourself agree with it…
Yeah, this is the part that made me pause when I was reading about this because I’m like, holy shit. That isn’t just right wing, like, that straight Nazi shit. Like, holy shit.
Anyone that’s considers themselves right wing with the current fascist in power deserves it. If you look at what’s happening now and say “i guess it’s fine I’m still right wing” then yeah the moniker holds.
Don’t condone Nazi shit if you don’t wanna be called a Nazi.
I mean, the account is named Glowie…
I’ve just seen this.
Do you know any good alternatives?
iVPN is the the best alternative if you want something as powerful as Mullvad. It’s a bit slower though
I moved to AirVPN after Mullvad shut down port forwarding and haven’t had any issues. It’s run by privacy activists.
ProtonVPN if you can stomach one CEO once praised trumps choice of some anti euh oligopol(?) lawyer.
If you already use Proton Mail, I strongly recommend against using ProtonVPN because you’re coupling yourself too hard to Proton. At least, if your threat model is high risk
What if I just torrent shit occasionally? Am I good? I like proton’s services a lot for the convenience which is a no no on here but I am a lazy fuck.
If you just use VPNs to torrent stuff, then that’s fine. I’m just saying that if your threat model makes you a target to let’s just say the CCP for example, then coupling Proton’s suite with their VPN is a bad idea
I don’t do anything that makes me a target so I’m all right
If I’m going to move away from mullvard because a high up funds populists I’d rather avoid that too.
iVPN looks good
can confirm. is good.
We all fund Nazis if we live in modern 1st world nations. It’s time to start blaming ourselves…
You are not wrong, but the comment you wrote this to is literally about trying actively not to.
Sure, but there’s a difference between existing in society and actively going out of your way to fund projects that are made by hyper-racists (the the omarchy guy)
Can someone tell me whats wrong with Quad9? I’ve never used or heard of that.
There’s nothing wrong with quad9. They’re a good privacy dns that blocks phishing and malware. Adguard dns though, also blocks ads and tracking so I would recommend that as well
They’re fine as long as you don’t mind the illuminati providing your dns and blocklist /s (?): https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/security-alliance-launches-dns-resolver
Oh wow it’s the city
I’ve been recommending Mullvad DNS for its adblock functionality. Quad9 does not provide this.
I am now seeking recommendations for an equivalent I can recommend to friends and family for use on devices that do not easily support system-wide adblocking.
AdGuard maintains a list of DNS providers; there are several with ad blocking.
Hosting your own DNS resolver is quite simple. Suggest trying PiHole.
Yes, I’ll tell my mother to host a PiHole.
Of course bringing it with her would require something to tether it to other than the phone she’s actually using as a phone (I think), and a way to power it all. She’s going to need a bigger purse.
Or she could access it remotely. I doubt her residential DSL comes with a static IP, so she’s going to have to get a domain name and set up dynamic DNS… oh, and route the appropriate port to her Pi through the ISP’s NAT router, assuming it actually supports that. Maybe she should buy the latest fancy one from GL.iNet with those big antennas and OpenWRT.
I think I might send her that AdGuard link instead.
“You want me to do what with a pie hole? You know you’re not too big for a slap, young man!”
Works great on my phone. Thinking of enabling it on my desktop, too, but I’m not too bothered there, using uBlock Origin. 👍
You can go with the default Adguard DNS configuration https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
Yes, quad9 has DNS adblock
Neither this screenshot nor their website claims to block ordinary advertisements.
Makes sense, Quad9 is really good!
Yeah, I ain’t mad at it. Especially with the dubious stuff an exec at mullvad did. Quad9 is my default anyway, but I did use the mullvad dns here and there.
Anyone got info on this?
Mullvad’s wikipedia page has a section on it: Donation to the Örebro Party.
Also handy heard anything like that. Supporting info appreciated.
Any alternatives that have ad/malware/tracker blocking features for mobile? I switched back to ControlD after hearing this, but they do not have mobile profiles for their DNS.
This list still good for europe? (will have a long rtt in asia/americas/australia)
Ah well, unbound prepared for the toggle.
# Mullvad No-Filter DoT forward-addr: 194.242.2.3@853#dns.mullvad.net # AdGuard Default Ad-Blocking DoT forward-addr: 94.140.14.14@853#dns.adguard-dns.com #Quad9 DoT #forward-addr: 9.9.9.9@853#dns9.quad9.net #Quad9 no threatblocker DoT #forward-addr: 9.9.9.10@853#dns10.quad9.netI use Quad9 where I can, but admittedly also have some reliability issues. Their local PoP will drop all requests for a couple minutes at least a few times a week. It’s a shame since it’s the closest/best recursive resolver otherwise. CloudFlare is similarly close, but they don’t support EDNS, so I’ve had problems because of that.
