from @turtlecute33 at twitter
99% of VPNs are scammers stealing your data. I’ve spent years in privacy and here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to hear. VPNs don’t give you privacy. They move the trust. Read carefully to defend yourself. When you use a VPN, you’re not becoming anonymous. You’re just deciding to trust your VPN provider instead of your ISP. That’s it. You’ve moved who can see your traffic from one company to another. „No logs“ is marketing, not reality Every VPN claims „no logs.“ It’s unverifiable. You cannot audit their servers. You cannot see what they actually store. You have to trust their word—the same trust model they told you to escape from. Some VPNs have been caught logging despite promises. Others have been acquired by data harvesting companies. The „no logs“ claim is worth exactly nothing without proof. Bitcoin payments don’t save you Pay with Bitcoin. Pay with cash. Pay with Monero. Doesn’t matter. The moment you connect, your VPN sees your real IP address. They know exactly who you are. Your payment method is irrelevant when they can identify you directly through your connection. Decentralized VPNs are even worse dVPNs sound great in theory. In practice, they create a financial incentive to spy on you. Anyone can run a node and earn tokens. This is a perfect Sybil attack setup. Bad actors spin up hundreds of nodes, earn money, AND collect user traffic data. You’re literally paying people to surveil you. The only 3 setups I trust: 1.
@mullvadnet They’ve proven themselves through actions, not marketing. They deleted user data when raided by police. They pioneered anonymous accounts (no email, no username—just a random number). They accept cash in envelopes. They push the industry forward on privacy standards. 2.
@obscuravpn This is Mullvad improved. Obscura adds a two-hop architecture: Entry server (Obscura): sees your IP, but not your traffic Exit server (Mullvad): sees your traffic, but not your IP No single party knows both who you are AND what you’re doing. This is actual privacy architecture, not marketing. 3. Self-hosted entry + Mullvad exit Same concept as Obscura, but you control the entry point: Your VPS as entry: you control it, sees your IP Mullvad as exit: sees traffic, not your identity More technical, but removes trust in the entry server entirely. Everything else? Marketing dressed up as privacy. Stop giving money to companies that sell you a false sense of security while potentially harvesting your data. The privacy industry has a trust problem. Start asking harder questions. Don’t trust, verify