Fuck Mullvad
It’s a shame one of the founders funds Nazis now, I won’t be renewing
I’ve just seen this.
Do you know any good alternatives?
I moved to AirVPN after Mullvad shut down port forwarding and haven’t had any issues. It’s run by privacy activists.
iVPN looks good
can confirm. is good.
We all fund Nazis if we live in modern 1st world nations. It’s time to start blaming ourselves…
You are not wrong, but the comment you wrote this to is literally about trying actively not to.
Sure, but there’s a difference between existing in society and actively going out of your way to fund projects that are made by hyper-racists (the the omarchy guy)
No no, the whole “no ethical consumption under capitalism” thing means that there’s no moral difference between my tax money funding ICE and directly donating to hateful people. They’re both bad, and there’s no possible way to measure how one thing could be worse than another.
You might be right but it is such a defeatist way to look at it. Maybe 30%-50% goes to taxes and you ha e no control over that. You also need food, a home, and depending where you live a car, so that limits your options. But the rest you have full control over. You can choose not to buy a Tesla, not to subscribe to Mullvad, not to donate to Omarchy. And with the money you save you can buy another car from a brand whose CEO didn’t literally make the Nazi gesture on live TV, subscribe to a VPN that’s not donating to a Nazi party, either directly or through a founder, and instead of investing time and money in a distro founded by a racist, you could use another distro.
It’s only impossible if you say it is. I’m also boycotting US as much as possible due to Greenland and the EU tariffs. It’s even harder because of how connected the economies are, but I still go out of my way to buy Danish soda instead of Pepsi or Coca-Cola, Italian toothpaste instead of Colgate, etc.
I’ve been recommending Mullvad DNS for its adblock functionality. Quad9 does not provide this.
I am now seeking recommendations for an equivalent I can recommend to friends and family for use on devices that do not easily support system-wide adblocking.
Yes, quad9 has DNS adblock
Neither this screenshot nor their website claims to block ordinary advertisements.
You can go with the default Adguard DNS configuration https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
Makes sense, Quad9 is really good!
Yeah, I ain’t mad at it. Especially with the dubious stuff an exec at mullvad did. Quad9 is my default anyway, but I did use the mullvad dns here and there.
Anyone got info on this?
Mullvad’s wikipedia page has a section on it: Donation to the Örebro Party.
Also handy heard anything like that. Supporting info appreciated.
Ah well, unbound prepared for the toggle.
# Mullvad No-Filter DoT forward-addr: 194.242.2.3@853#dns.mullvad.net # AdGuard Default Ad-Blocking DoT forward-addr: 94.140.14.14@853#dns.adguard-dns.com #Quad9 DoT #forward-addr: 9.9.9.9@853#dns9.quad9.net #Quad9 no threatblocker DoT #forward-addr: 9.9.9.10@853#dns10.quad9.netAny alternatives that have ad/malware/tracker blocking features for mobile? I switched back to ControlD after hearing this, but they do not have mobile profiles for their DNS.
I use Quad9 where I can, but admittedly also have some reliability issues. Their local PoP will drop all requests for a couple minutes at least a few times a week. It’s a shame since it’s the closest/best recursive resolver otherwise. CloudFlare is similarly close, but they don’t support EDNS, so I’ve had problems because of that.
