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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

This same sort of thing happens anytime a VPN company (like proton) responds to a legal court order, everyone was all “How could they do this to us!?!?” and not “Why would an activist pay using a credit card?, maybe we should teach people how payment systems work so they can avoid this in the future” I think we should focus more on the latter, preventative education, so that less people can be targeted or exposed in general.

It doesn't help that Proton doesn't have a Monero payment option, it's like they're not even trying