Mullvad is the only VPN I will ever trust. Yet again they ace the test.

flumpcakes 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I also use Mullvad VPN exclusively for my VPN needs. The fact I can get 6 months of access with a scratch card bought from a store & my account is just a random integer number is an example of privacy by design: no email, no phone numbers, no credit cards. I don't even do anything illegal, I'd just rather have a (what I feel) trusted option when I want to browse the Internet anonymously.

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illusive4080 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you buy those in US stores?

I’ve been paying for Mullvad with Monero for years. Love it

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phantom784 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Amazon, but that kind of defeats the point.

	▲	buildbot 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Buy amazon gift card in cash, setup new account, ship scratch card to locker? (Idk if they’d let you do that). I think you can still mail them cash?

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gspr 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can even just randomly generate such an ID number, write it on a piece of paper and enclose it with cash in one of several currencies, and post it to them.

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drnick1 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The best thing is that they accept crypto. I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.

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hxtk 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But you have to get money into your crypto wallet somehow, which makes it relatively easy to deanonymize for most users (serious crypto privacy enthusiasts could of course pay cash for their crypto or perhaps mine it themselves) if they're looking at your traffic specifically, but hard if you're only worried about bulk collection.

IMO the coolest privacy option they have is to literally mail them an envelope full of cash with just your account's cash payment ID.

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jopsen 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.

Wow, you must be using the VPN for some seriously shady stuff.

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ssl-3 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Back when I was doing that uber-shady business of torrenting, and this kind of VPN was much less-common than it is today, I paid for VPN access with crypto.

I'd gather a small amount of that up (however I did that), keep it in an offline wallet, and spend it on VPN service every now and then.

It just seemed like the right way to go about things.

(And then I lost that wallet, because of course I did, with about $14 worth of BTC in it. I didn't care enough at that time to see if I'd backed it up properly; I wasn't planning on using it for anything anymore anyway. That was in 2014 and those backups are waaaay gone now, but it'd be around $2k worth of BTC today -- plenty to buy some DDR5 RAM. Whoopsie-doodle!)

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vpShane 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Enough to buy like 512MB of DDR5 RAM maybe

	▲	ssl-3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		...then I'll just have to learn how to get stuff done with 512MB of RAM. (I'm sure that browsers like lynx still work just like they did in 2001, and that pine can still read mail. Shouldn't be a problem, right?)

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someNameIG 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What actual extra privacy does that add though? You still need to connect to them from your IP address, which can be traced back to you.

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cedws 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure why you've been downvoted. Somebody protecting their business?