This is a really great resource thank you!

Could be wrong but I think it’s due to the security vulnerabilities present, its generally better to just use Google play store with an anonymous account.

Bitwarden’s track record of breaches that resulted in password leaks, is fairly substantial.

Is that, never?

dw I don’t. My phone number was leaked, I don’t know how and it really sucks. It probably happened before I started caring about privacy. and all these phone number aliasing services either don’t operate in my region or cost too much money.

it’s definetly not public information

I mean I’m using pia, so not much better but I’m broke so I ain’t paying for mullvad or anything. I might switch to nymvpn when I get the chance though, it seams pretty good.

I wouldn’t call it useless, for people who just use a vpn for privacy, for all I know the only main use case for port forwarding in a vpn is torrenting linux iso’s rather than genuine privacy measures.

Pure vpn seams like a pretty generic scammy vpn like surfshark or nordvpn they have there own blog dedicated to why they are the best stating reasons like securing yourself in public wifi, protecting you from scams or getting hacked, protecting you against ddos atacks??? and just advertising vpn’s as a jack of all trades privacy toolkit, which they really aren’t.

VPN companies that are willing to lie to consumers about what vpn’s actually do means they could be lying about other things, like there no logs policy.

Proton does a better job at explaining what a vpn actually does and doesn’t do.

Nymvpn seams great! I’ve never heard of it either. I just hope it stays around and gets a name for itself.

I’m not sure. I mainly use it for downloading linux isos.

Does anyone here regard ivpn as a good vpn as well?

Yes there’s port forwarding with proton, but not with mullvad they removed it.

Do you people really believe this? Holy shit.

I agree it’s not a great reason but they pile up (the reasons). As well as my previous reasons they also offer significantly more payment methods than many other options, including monero and even cash.

They are also not based inside the 5 eyes.

Oh and they offer completely anonymous account creation. I have not found a single VPN that does this, every other VPN at least requires a e-mail address.

If you think mullvad is nothing special then I challenge you to find another VPN that offers all of the reasons I have specified.

Explain? I use ironfox and its great.

Is there anything wrong with using Mulvad’s own DNS?

They never do any sponsorship deals, they haven’t been in any controversies, they aren’t based in the us, they don’t use any marketing tricks to try and entice users into using it like discounts or insanely high prices unless you elect for a 12 or 24 month plan, the high price gives them less incentive to log user data.

There is no specific reason but all these things add up to make a trustworthy product.

This is the right choice.

a sufficiently determined government will always be able to access your communications

If you use encrypted messages and both people using the messages have a phone with disk encryption then there is literally no way for a government to gain access to your messages. That is assuming the government isn’t going to torture you.

For linux phones can’t you use waydroid which gets you support for all android apps? Pls don’t quote me on this though.

I guess apps that require Google play services won’t work.

I think signal is very useful. Private messages are only useful when other people use it and it’s difficult really difficult to entice people to switch if it’s any less convenient than what they were already using.

With signal you can just tell your friend or relative that its like WhatsApp but better.