No idea why this is on the front page since most HNers are already aware of Mullvad VPN, but I'll upvote anyway. AirVPN and Windscribe are pretty good as well, and they allow port forwarding.
Mullvad get a lot or press and that is fine and maybe they are a good VPN provider. But seeing ads and occasional story everywhere always makes me suspicious of a company.
Mullvad lost my attention when co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Berntsson made a private donation of 5 million Swedish kronor (about $500,000 USD) to the Örebro Party.
Yeah, he still does. Quite intersting move to donate that much money to a toxic pro-surveillance nazi politician when you work for a VPN but maybe he imagines with more surveillance they will get more customers.
I looked into the Mullvad thing. You may use Mullvad with a clear conscience. There is no Nazi supporting going on. Meanwhile if you search "Windscribe Nazi" you'll acually find something.
I assume you are not Swedish if you had to look into it. As a Swede I can say for sure that Markus Allard is a really toxic person in general, and probably a nazi.
Hw supports deporting people who are citizens, he supports mass surveillance, he talks about DOGE-like stupid budget cuts, he is just generally rude and toxic, he writes crazy rambles abd racist stuff on social media. If someone
support Allard that says a lot about them.
How does Proton compare?
No idea why this is on the front page since most HNers are already aware of Mullvad VPN, but I'll upvote anyway. AirVPN and Windscribe are pretty good as well, and they allow port forwarding.
How does AirVPN compare in terms of speed and availability? port forwarding and the price are appealing, but I'm hesitant since I have no issues.
Speed is worse. It all depends on the servers. You can see stats at https://airvpn.org/status/
Almost all of mullvad's servers are in western countries, or that are politically aligned. Does anyone know of a VPN with servers in other regions?
anyone else have the issue after disconnecting my internet is dropped. need to change my DNS settings by hand to get it reconnected?
Anything new here OP?
Mullvad get a lot or press and that is fine and maybe they are a good VPN provider. But seeing ads and occasional story everywhere always makes me suspicious of a company.
If that's the case; Apple, Framework and Kagi should be top of your list.
Mullvad lost my attention when co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Berntsson made a private donation of 5 million Swedish kronor (about $500,000 USD) to the Örebro Party.
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Yeah, he still does. Quite intersting move to donate that much money to a toxic pro-surveillance nazi politician when you work for a VPN but maybe he imagines with more surveillance they will get more customers.
Are there any good alternatives that offer a similar service (account nuns, no email, etc) but without supporting a nazi?
Good question. There used to be OVPN but they sold the company to some really shady new owner.
I looked into the Mullvad thing. You may use Mullvad with a clear conscience. There is no Nazi supporting going on. Meanwhile if you search "Windscribe Nazi" you'll acually find something.
I assume you are not Swedish if you had to look into it. As a Swede I can say for sure that Markus Allard is a really toxic person in general, and probably a nazi.
Hw supports deporting people who are citizens, he supports mass surveillance, he talks about DOGE-like stupid budget cuts, he is just generally rude and toxic, he writes crazy rambles abd racist stuff on social media. If someone support Allard that says a lot about them.