Not sure why this got downvoted. Mullvad is a perfect counterexample of the Mozilla service: They've fought like hell to earn their reputation as a trustworthy VPN provider, which is something that every provider must do before they deserve your business.
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I have my doubts (see responses for similar arguments about systemd adding an age field).
- Authoritarian governments are not appeased by corporations that bend over backwards for them, and
- Apple is in the business of making money, not keeping people private.
Remember when Apple used to fight surveillance?
Now they're jumping to comply with rules that don't even exist yet.
App stores and mobile operating systems are not covered by the Online Safety Act, but Ofcom, the UK media and telecoms regulator, welcomed Apple’s move on Wednesday.
FWIW Vizio is a Walmart subsidiary now, they got bought out in late 2024
Unfortunately, part of the court's decision was that Facebook wasn't surveilling people enough.
The New Mexico court heard how Meta’s 2023 decision to encrypt Facebook Messenger – its direct messaging platform, which predators have used as a tool to groom minors and exchange child abuse imagery – blocked access to crucial evidence of these crimes.
This is not white-label Mullvad. This is:
- A new, unaudited service
- From a company that's never built a VPN
- That needs an email address for an account
- With legal jurisdiction in the US
- And servers exclusively in the US
That is not something you trust just because a company tells you to trust it. In a best-case scenario you start with zero trust, and it gets built out from there. (And this assumes Mozilla isn't operating from a trust deficit).
And by age, of course, we apparently mean identity... I love it
If they have to add useless features, at least they are inside things you can delete, and never receive the update to begin with!
(edit: ~~fixed link~~ close enough)
Hopefully everybody here is using an adblocker that renders this DDoS non-functional.
And coming at a time where some states say you need permission to run an OS on your own computer.
Fascinating. There are probably some issues with this, but it should be critiqued only with the constant reminder that Metq and Google probably have more data about your mental health than any therapist would dream of having, and their exploitation happens under those circumstances.