I’ve been using them for nearly 3 years now and never used (or even knew they offered) email support.
Not ideal they use GMail of course but they could be using private keys (as most business users do I believe) which means Google couldn’t see a thing anyway.
If privacy is of utmost concern, we recommend that you refrain from communicating any personal data to us since plain-text email is not a safe media for communication. If necessary, use PGP-encrypted email.
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We do use a third party to operate our email service, so we remind you to carefully read #1 again.
A long screed but has this jackhole who writes so unprofessionally even reached out to Mullvad for comment or explanation? Because that’s usually what respectable journalistic outfits do.
They don’t post some screenshots, make inferences without knowing all of Mullvad’s backend, and say “what we are saying is definitely true and there’s no possible way we could technically be wrong.”
I can think of several ways they could be wrong, it would have been helpful to have any statement from Mullvad, because they might have a technical reason for this (up to and including making sure their emails aren’t disappeared as spam, because running your own email server sucks.).
Anyway, pretty unprofessional and makes me pretty skeptical of the claims until more solid evidence than a screenshot surface.
For example, who is to say that Mullvad hasn’t set up their own client side encryption keys? This is an option Google offers for use with business accounts. This effectively means Google doesn’t have your keys nor can read your emails.
I’ve trash talked this website before in my head, but maybe I was approaching it as a professional organization instead of more of a blog run by a small group of people.
They aren’t just doing ads dude, it’s a for-profit propaganda machine.
But seriously, Mullvad would do well to switch out their email provider to something that’s not Google. Even though email is inherently unsafe, email through Google is pretty much is unsafe as it can get.
…because why would you go to all the trouble to pay Mullvad (presumably to keep your sensitive information away from big tech) to then give it to google in the form of an e-mail should you reach out to Mullvad for support? Google would then suck up any and all data that comes via their gmail service.
It’s because of the difference in credentials. One is a website positing as having both privacy and cryptocurrency investment advice services, and the other is a random Lemur
Microsoft will insert their left-leaning propaganda into the Windows start menu, innocently pretending it’s just trending news. Brainwashed Democrats don’t even realize that it’s normalizing an authoritarian society through unquestioned acceptance of government authority. In fact, Democrats are so shielded from criticism…
I have the GL.inet Beryl router, absolutely the best addition to my travel tech. I’ve considered upgrading to a newer model for faster vpn for torrents, but this can still easily run off a 2.4v usb battery pack and handles everything reasonably.
GrapheneOS has been basically flawless for me, most of the time I forget I’m even using a custom rom. Using the Aurora Store, along with a few select apps in a work profile with sandboxed Google Play services goes a long way in terms of plugging the usability gap. I know there’s supposed to be issues with banks, but at least in my anecdotal experience, I’ve used accounts from 3 different banks and haven’t had any issues.
I’ve been happy with Graphene on my Pixel 7. Only con is Google Wallet doesn’t work, but not a big deal for me personally. I also like that I can deny apps network access: I’ve been using Gboard without network access, which makes me feel a bit better in regards to privacy.
I would personally ban/defed from Monero.town because it’s a scam-ass crypto instance.
Every time I see a “guide” like this it’s always from a monero.town user. The last guy who was posting “reviews” was bitching about how he got stiffed paying for a game or something with crypto, and nobody had any sympathy because when you don’t pay with real money you don’t get the guarantee of a service rendered.
Two things holding me back is my worry about some banking and payment apps not working and Google Maps because I’m a hypocrite and the timeline feature of Google Maps has helped me many times in the past.
That’s it. Google Maps with good precise location is the thing I most miss from my Pixel. But that’s a trade-offs… if you want to get the best GPS, you need to give some data back. I don’t like that… but well I miss it.
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