[mattrighetti]

I use Mullvad because it physically prevents anyone from logging my data.

What a co-owner does with his personal money in a local Swedish municipal election has zero impact on the code protecting my traffic.

Did a quick research - calling a party that campaigns for a 30-hour work week and socialist dental care 'far-right' just because they have a strict immigration policy shows how carelessly people throw labels around these days.

[ailun]

Remigration is more than a strict immigration policy. And calling legal immigrants parasites is going too far.

[peterfirefly]

Why? It is perfectly possible to be a legal immigrant and a parasite. It's even possible to be a completely homegrown native and a parasite. Wouldn't you call essentially all career criminals parasites?

[ailun]

Look into dehumanizing language used by political leadership over history and where it tends to lead. Especially when paired with extremist, evil policies like remigration.

[hagbard_c]

> extremist, evil policies like remigration

Explain why remigration is 'extremist' and 'evil' when applied to those who refuse to assimilate and/or integrate into their host societies, who never learned the language of those societies, who express disdain over those societies, who claim their own culture is superior and will prevail, who never became self-supporting but continue to depend on the state for their upkeep? Let alone those who commit crimes?

I'd say it is those people who are extremist, not the host societies who are fed up with hosting unwelcome guests.

[microgpt]

How does it physically prevent Mullvad from logging your data?

[mattrighetti]

They're known to run everything in RAM, nothing gets stored. You pull the plug and everything is gone.

Of course, you have to trust the company on that.

[solid_fuel]

> I use Mullvad because it physically prevents anyone from logging my data.

> They're known to run everything in RAM, nothing gets stored. You pull the plug and everything is gone.

> Of course, you have to trust the company on that.

So nothing actually physically prevents them from logging your data, and this entire series of statements from you mean nothing because it still boils down to "you have to trust the company". A statement which is true for every VPN provider.

[mattrighetti]

The trust in Mullvad was put to a test two years ago when Swedish police raided their headquarters with a warrant to seize customer data. They left with absolutely nothing because the data didn't exist to be seized.

Furthermore, Mullvad doesn't even keep an email address or a credit card on file. You sign up with a random number and can pay with cash in an envelope. If a company doesn't know who you are, uses only RAM servers, open-sources their code, and successfully clears a police raid, it's no longer just a matter of blind trust

[microgpt]

So nothing prevents them

[mattrighetti]

By that logic, nothing prevents your ISP, your OS, or your hardware manufacturer from logging you either. Ultimate trust is an illusion in tech.

[microgpt]

Correct and we know several of these parties do log you.

[nout]

One option is to use Obscura, so then you at least spread the trust to two parties (one of which is Mullvad). Not great, but better.

[dongcarl]

Thanks for the shoutout!