All good, but mullvad should work on more rotation of server IPs or find a solution from alltheir banned server by big techs . Nearly 90% of their servers are blocked to do common internet tasks .
Is it really that bad? I let my NordVPN subscription lapse as I didn't need it due to personal matters, I've heard a lot of good things about Mullvad and was considering them as my VPN provider.
It’s exaggerated. I believe most services are generally more sceptical about users with a known VPN connection. But yeah, I think you‘ll have some hiccups when browsing with a VPN on no matter the provider, or did you have a different experience with NordVPN (I‘m legit curious)?
I did have occasional issues with using a VPN and it was clear services were somewhat suspicious about me (very aggressive use of CAPTCHAs, additional login validation etc.).
That being said, outside of netflix (circumventing region-lock), I never had any issues with outright loosing access to tech oligopoly services.
Ah okay! Yeah that’s basically my experience with Mullvad. Anyways, you can try it out and if you don’t like it just don’t pay $5 for another month. 🤷♂️
With protonvpn, are the the best vpns . And I tested all the services believe me. But the big issue mullvad have is IP bans. The rest is almost perfect . Ah and the problem with port forwarding, suddenly they decided to remove that service , with reason because people were abusing of it. But instead of just remove it one day to another, with no previous notification to the users and not giving an alternate option, felt very rough .
Nearly 90% of their servers are blocked to do common internet tasks .
Perhaps your browsing habits are severely impacted by Mullvad being blocked, but that doesn't seem to be the universal case. I've had the occasional hiccup with a few sites that block VPNs (Mullvad's IPs), but "90%" is quite an exaggeration when compared to my personal experience.
So you are running a full-fledged OS on a standalone computer that functions as a router. An actual router has a very limited operating system with no such functionality, plus it's always online by design, so you'd basically have to have a key that is permanently plugged in; or depending on the setup you'd have to re-authenticate ever so often. Not exactly great considering most routers are hidden somewhere in an inaccessible corner.
It's nothing fancy I just needed more CPU power on my router. I'm not saying it makes sense to use a hardware key to access the internet on router level, I'm just saying it works.
openBSD is actually kinda common base for routers. Also why would I hide a router in some inaccessible corner?
Since the other comment didn't Go into detail: Microsofts "Recall" will so that on every Windows 11 PC soon. Literally index everything you do or look at, OCR-ing periodic screenshots. Also storing them, possibly including sensitive information like this.
When I was in Denmark I was shocked how many cameras there were, everywhere. I mean not just in the city, but everywhere on the countrywide.
I've lived in Denmark for decades. The only cameras I see are basically surveillance cameras in stores etc and speed cameras. I see more cameras in most other countries I go to.
We have nothing compared to fx. London.
Where did you see cameras?
Denmark is one of those weird countries where its illegal to have your map software tell you where the speed cameras are.
That's not correct. You can even buy gadgets for this in many stores.
Also Denmark is one of those weird countries where its illegal to have your map software tell you where the speed cameras are.
That is not true at all. The police has even officially recommended the use of speed trap avoidance software. We even have an entire market of it, most notably with Saphe that's probably the world's biggest producer of traffic alarms.
Because it isn't in the tags or releases section yet, but it is available as executables under the actions. So you choose the latest build and scroll all the way to the bottom and you will find the installers. You do have to be signed in though in order to download it for now.
Edit: And yet we still have almost 200 monero on the offer books after only a week of being active and being hard to download.
Denmark had issues in the past that pulled money out of Denmark with either cash or money transfers, and therefore banks have to document where big transfers come from.
So this is basically an unfortunate example on how this also hits innocent companies.
But Denmark had to stop it all together, because we are talking about billions being pulled from Denmark this way.
It's also just the scale of Denmark. The US has billions pulled from the US every day and it's not a problem but the US isn't a small country of 6 million people.
That doesn't make any sense. Currency outside a nation isn't laundering, USD is used as a trade medium around the world even when not trading with US banks or entities. Idk why you're saying that "billions a day" is taxpayer money or something and it wouldn't fix around the country, it'd go into the military like usual.
But seriously, you're right. What makes it even stranger is that the value of kroner is pegged at 746,038 kroner pr. 100 euro. Which, basically, is just euros with extra steps.
It's more related to the fact that once you join the Eurozone (ERM II) there's no way to take it back, and for some reason this resonates negatively with Danish people. AFAIK there's been opinion polls the suggest that a referendum on the matter would (still) not pass. Also AFAIK the Danish political agenda does not lean particularly for or against it otherwise, as you said, it's technically moot either way.
Well, you have Finland in the north-east, Ireland in the north-west, and every land border faces a Euro-zone country. Few other countries can claim the latter.
Edit: and looking at a map, actually several countries have "every land border" to eurozone countries. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg all fit that one, several with multiple land borders even. That's 30% of the eurozone countries.
overseas territories would probably be island states, so they're unlikely to have a land border to any country at all. But sure, maybe there is some. But then the Danish/Canadian border would count too, making it untrue for Denmark as well.
I think it's important to remember that the Eurozone has two stages (ERM I and II) and they're both important but for different reasons.
ERM I is about achieving long term economical stability, which is established according to a series of indices called convergence criteria, that are evaluated every two years on even years. A member can technically apply for the second stage if they pass only two consecutive evaluations (4 years) with all-green marks, but the members that join nowadays do so after about a decade of green evaluations.
The goal of ERM I is to make sure a member's economy is stable to the point that switching the currency to the euro becomes moot. But it is also a win in itself (long term economical balance).
You may wonder why even bother with ERM II if every member were ERM I. Well, ERM I is what is called a common monetary policy – but ERM II is a common fiscal policy, which would mean deeper alignment and integration of all fiscal instruments across the Union.
There is no deadline that the members must meet but most EU members are legally committed to entering ERM II someday. There's no deadline because you can't wish economic stability true; each member will achieve it when it achieves it.
To give some examples:
Denmark has been passing ERM I convergence criteria for more than a decade and can technically enter ERM II at any time and would be a formality. But they have an opt-out that says they are extempt from the legal committment to do so. Also, Danish public opinion is split fairly evenly about it.
Croatia and Bulgaria have met the criteria for more than 10 years before they adopted the euro.
The UK has never met the criteria between 2012-2018 so they couldn't have adopted the euro even if they wanted to. But of course they didn't want to, and also had a legal opt-out.
Romania is one of the members that's legally committed to entering ERM II but have never managed to achieve two consecutive green evaluations since 2012. And that's despite the fact their economy is in arguably better shape than Bulgaria's (in volume and growth).
I am going to absolutely take this at face value without checking any of the text because anything that is so well written, must be true! Thanks, I learnt a heap from this.
Stefan Hector, a representative of the Swedish Police Authority, said that “a society cannot accept that criminals today have a space to communicate safely in order to commit serious crimes.” A week later, it was revealed that the Swedish police had been infiltrated and were leaking information to criminals.
I've been with Mullvad for over a year at this point. This sort of analysis (as well as being able to mail cash) makes me feel confident that I made the right choice to ignore every entreaty (before SponsorBlock) about NordVPN.
NordVPN: We have the budget to pay influencers, and it's likely coming out of the U.S. Treasury.
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