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Fuck Mullvad for the weak sauce response. They are in a tough spot due to the racist-supporting CEO, but the move should be kicking him out or splitting off to a new company instead of going "he doesn't represent us". He fucking does, that's why he's the goddamn CEO.
I'm looking at the European alternatives. ProtonVPN is also has a CEO who supports fascism (unfortunately), IVPN is opensource but only accepts US dollars as payment, F-Secure is expensive, so Xeovo, GooseVPN, OctoVPN and AirVPN are still in the running. AirVPN is opensource and somehow collaborative it seems, which makes it my top contender.
What's the deal with Proton? I missed that.
CEO posted some stuff supporting Trump and his administration and how it was better for the economy or something. Got a lot of flak and it was then posted on the Proton twitter handle which was like an official endorsement. Reddit went nuts and Proton took it down with an apology from the CEO saying it was all a misunderstanding/miscommunication + "I learned my lesson" or something.
There are probably more thorough sources, but that's the gist of it.
Basically the Proton CEO (or similar) posted that a nomination to some high function in the USA was great (they were pro some law IIRC). The person was nominated by Trump and everyone went crazy calling him a fascist etc.
Personally I think it feels like a drummed up bullshit thing. Especially compared to all other VPNs.