I am fully aware of what vpn services to use and not. I am not using Express VPN, I am simply doing research for a master thesis, when I came across these results from Express VPN. If you have any ideas or corrections, please let me know why a VPN provider would need to have access to these permissions.

Screenshot is from Exodus service, which let’s you view what exactly perimissions and trackers each app uses. You can check out the results and the tool for yourself here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.expressvpn.vpn/latest/

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  • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get why the entire world isn’t on Mullvad.

    I don’t trust these guys at all. I trialed them and despite their full money back guarantee, they locked me into a support loop, always switching support staff with boiler plate responses and links that dealt with account issues or whatever. It wasn’t until I left a stern reply demanding the refund or I would escalate the matter with the proper regulatory bodies.

    It took 4 support tickets. To me, they came across hella shady.

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          You can set up a VPS and tunnel that to your minecraft server using wireguard some iptables magic if you’re into Linux.

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          AirVPN still has port forwarding. They are run by a non profit activist group and you can use it without their app. Works with openvpn and wireguard natively.

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      Dilly dilly, Mullvad is great. I prefer it over ProtonVPN just for how lightweight and simple it is

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      I know this isn’t popular but I really like Nord. I’ve been with them for years before the ad campaigns that turned people off. Mullvad can use wireguard so I may look at them again at some point, but the Linux cli client for Nord is really solid and picks the fastest server in whatever region you like.

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        Wireguard is insanely fast. Like insanely fast compared to traditional VPN connections. For me that is an absolute dealbreaker they don’t have it.

        Once you start using Wireguard you can’t go back.

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          Thanks for the update. I just checked them out and they seem like they have a lot of servers. They’re almost double what I paid for Nord. Is there enough of a difference to consider switching? My Nord subscription doesn’t expire for five more months though.

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      Worst thing about mullvad is they only offer like 5 devices or so for your subscription. If they bumped it up to 7 or 8 I’d have no complaints.

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          I didn’t say it was unreasonable. I just think it would be nice to have a couple more. I’m usually running out on the devices I run and have to proactively prune connections from machines that might, at the moment, not be using them. What I really wish is that it had tiers: like paying 1 euro for each available connection, versus just “5 euros and 5 connections” - I don’t need 10 full connections, but I’d be happy paying 7 euros for 7 connections.