it is real, proceed with caution they also admit they use AI shit for their code
another VPN service to add to the list to avoid
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What's even left at this point? Mullvad donates to nazis, Proton's CEO loves trump, damn near everything else is from Israel. IVPN I guess, but it feels like they might be covering their asses by saying they're "politically neutral".
Has AirVPN done something catastrophic yet
The only two left are AirVPN and iVPN. I literally just bought a Windscribe sub like a week ago lol.
My experience running through them all in the last few weeks is that AirVPN has trash garbage software (Eddie) if you need to use it and so does iVPN because you need to use two separate apps for persistent split tunneling to even work as it should (the VPN and Portmaster), the latter stuffed with a bunch of extra features you might not want.
Windscribe actually just works so far.
I'm operating under the assumption every VPN operator is cringe at best and fascist at worst at this point. So you should go with whichever has the features you want.
What about NordVPN? Cringe or fascist?
The only incident I know of with Nord is that they had a vulnerability that potentially exposed people's data in 2018 and they didn't disclose it to customers for several months. Their reasoning was they wanted to make sure it was fixed first. They also have automatic renewal which most VPNs don't, and I think that's bitten people before since it's non-standard practice.
On the other hand, iVPN wasn't using proper encryption on some of their overseas servers so a few Ukrainian servers that got seized we potentially left wide open. They did disclose it immediately and fixed it.
Other than that, I think it's all vibes because of how they do their marketing. Which isn't as bad as this Hitler ad, but they aren't very discerning who they do business with and will let just about anyone do ad reads for them. Including relatively problematic Youtubers like SsethTzeentach and The Internet Historian. I think they're somewhere in the middle with cringe marketing but no outright right wing stuff yet.
Just because I also tried Proton recently, I'll mention their split tunnel feature literally just didn't work at all in the app or the browser extension and I've seen reports going back 7 months that it has been broken intermittently on Linux for that entire time, so they still don't care about Linux at all.
Luckily, all of them have a one-time 30-day no questions asked refund policy and I've had no problems getting the refund processed while going through the motions to find one that works. Mullvad was last on my list since they're one of the outright worst and I did notice that Windscribe marketing seemed to be edgy 14 year olds, but I don't think they ever posted anything this bad before.
They are
I think Nym VPN is fine, this is the team if anyone wants to research them. I want to purchase a subscription from them at some point and try to setup my OpenWRT router with Nym and use mixnet to surround internet traffic across my home with noise to be resistant against AI surveillance.