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BigFig@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Why Windscribe's court case proves how important VPN no-logging policies are

www.tomsguide.com

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Why Windscribe's court case proves how important VPN no-logging policies are

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BigFig@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
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    Mullvad - June 2023, the third audit. We’d also like an update, but it has completed a number of other security audits since

    Oh, I can feel mullvads policy in that article opinion, especially since Mullvad too has had their no logging policies tested in practice just like Windscribe
    https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request

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    It may come as a surprise that many product reviews found on the Internet are actually paid ads disguised as unbiased reviews. Sometimes, the more a company pays, the more favorable its product or service is reviewed. From a consumer’s standpoint, this makes it hard – if not impossible – to know when a review is genuine and when it’s a biased advertisement.

    We do not have affiliates, and do not pay for influencers
    In other words, we do not pay anyone to write about Mullvad – good or bad. We don’t even pay for links back to our website.
    https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-affiliates

    I enjoy that Mullvad are transparent with their third party security audits:
    https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-completed-by-cure53

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    Mullvad’s no-log policy proven after police raid

    DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

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    Tom’s Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it’s not for privacy oriented people.

    Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all “features” the others do, not paying for audits, etc.

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    There is no such thing as a “no log VPN”

    When traffic leaves your device it is free game. You have no control over the VPN companies stuff plus the VPN company also has to have a connection to the internet. Your traffic will always be passing over many different companies infrastructure to get to where its going.

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      Get your head out of your ass and learn to read. No one likes the “Uhm akshually, that’s not technically true” -guy. Especially when they’re techinically wrong(it’s not talking about no-logging for your entire browsing session, just that the VPN doesn’t store logs of your usage. And that is very much a thing, as proven by this court case).

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      Yeah YOU have no control so it’s important that your VPN provider does it right. Once traffic leaves the VPN provider it is very hard to connect that traffic back to you.

    • uhmbah@lemmy.ca
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      Do some reading…

      Mullvad’s no-log policy proven after police raid

      DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

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