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141 sats \ 5 replies \ @magnolia_mayhem 11 Sep \ parent \ on: Slowly Exiting the Fiat World with Bitcoin e-SIM bitcoin

I don't think it's a loss because I don't want to use Mullvad. I just like supporting new, smaller companies.

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153 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 11 Sep

I'm not really sure that I understand what you're saying here:

  1. What loss?
  2. You just switched to Mullvad but you don't want to use it? Why do you not want to use it?
  3. What makes supporting smaller companies important in operational origin obfuscation?
  4. Is Mullvad too big a company for you? Or an incumbent?
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126 sats \ 1 reply \ @magnolia_mayhem 11 Sep
  1. I'm saying that I don't regret going with Mullvad, just that I prefer supporting smaller companies
  2. I don't not want to use it. I was originally on Nord but switched to Mullvad when I saw that you can pay with Lightning, but then saw that nadanada also provides lightning payments and it's a smaller, less established company
  3. It's not directly important to obfuscation, but a healthy ecosystem is one where many companies compete for users. In that way, it DOES improve OOO at the big picture level. A monopoly is effectively indistinguishable from communism and the way you prevent that from happening is not letting it move in that direction while you still have choice.
  4. It's not that they're too big of a company or that they're an incumbent. I just like supporting small competitors because that's what creates a good ecosystem.
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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11 Sep

I think you did great getting off Nord; it's one of these providers with allegations of being funded by spooks. I can't tell if they are but in that case it's been a pretty persistent allegation over the years.

The Germans failed to raid Mullvad for logs, which is good. The downside is that in response, to reduce abuse and being raided more, they turned of port forwarding (though personally I don't use that). Having some protection through Swedish data protection laws, and great local jurisprudence on what does and does not make a company an ISP (VPN providers aren't that) is a nice to have cherry on top, I guess.

I don't know how nadanada runs their VPN servers exactly, because the FAQ is a bit sparse on detail. That they are domiciled in Germany mostly trades some up/downsides vs Sweden, for now, but in general I think that it is hard to get a feel for closed systems and what they truly offer in terms of security. There's a lot of trustmebro and industry-wide a lot of betrayal from these bros.

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148 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 11 Sep

Maybe I'll write one post for Mullvad next week, such a gem.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 11 Sep

Or you can simply pick what each company are good at.

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