I’ve assumed, but I guess I don’t know for certain, that their lack of adoption of open standards had something to do with their approach to encryption.

I’m currently bought into in to the proton ecosystem and have appreciated having a lot of things under that one roof for ease of use with the family.

I did shop Tuta but I can’t remember why I went with proton instead.

I guess I can enjoy the offerings until enshittification begins?

Have they done something questionable?

I think airports count too.

I think we can find some lines though. We aren’t talking about political disagreements on the marginal tax rates or how to fund schools.

We are talking about donations to a political party calling for ethnic cleansing.

Miscommunication… I’d quit Mullvad as a customer. I have done that and received my refund.

Switching to Apple with advanced data protection and HomeKit has been great for my big family. Way fewer tech support calls for me.

It was the most feasible option in the end. If it were just me, and I wasn’t raising kids and supporting aging parents, and working 50 hour work weeks, then I’d do graphene and home assistant. I’m just at a point that I want as much privacy as I can get for the least amount of maintenance.

That’s why I use the garbage. I was talked into it by my lunch group at work, who are sysadmin types, who switched for similar reasons.

I know… let’s have a spelling contest.

It’s Karl Popper’s tolerance paradox. To answer your question, yes I am in support of discrimination against anyone using their salary to fund over half the annual budget of a white nationalist political party.

Then I’d quit them….

Don’t fund the guy funding the white nationalist party. That’s rule 1 and we can sort the rest out later.

He is providing that political party with over half of its income if I recall correctly.

If Mullvad’s janitor were someone doing that and Mullvad refused to terminate them, I’d quit Mullvad.

He is free to use his Mullvad salary to fund Nazi types. That was never the question.

The question is do you want to help generate his salary for him by doing business with Mullvad? You’re free to do that. I won’t give this company another penny.

It can be so hard to be principled in the modern day. However, since there are readily available VPN providers who aren’t owned by people funding Nazis, this isn’t a hard call to make.

There was actually some recent improvement with that. It isn’t perfect in all places yet, but even if I have to click into the browser extension, it feels quick.