Meduza has English version of its article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/04/10/mathematics-teacher-accused-of-inciting-mass-riots-now-also-accused-of-supporting-terrorism-and-once-again-detained it isn't so full, but it's enough for understanding.

Also I need to mention that Dmitry Bogatov is Debian and GNU maintainer. So, I think it would be good to spread this information in GNU and Debian community.

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This is a great guide for the 1000' view of VPNs.

Mullvad, has a great score and slightly more green on the chart than Proton. It's important to look into the nuance differences too. Mullvad logs are technically less than Proton, but both maintain a zero logs.

Mullvad allows users to send cash in an envelope anonymously.

That's certainly discrete and private.

I'm not advocating for either service as better than another, I want to welcome educated discussion about it.

I appreciate your discussion. I really like your main points and I think that while they offer insignificant differentiation for most users, it's really nice to have a reasonable discussion about it on the basis of such a masterfully crafted source of information.

Personally, I've used a few of the green ones, and 1 that's not on there, and some mixed colored ones.

I liked Mullvad & iVPN for optimal protection at the time of use (2018), Express for good configurability, & Surfshark for something with an impressive cost to value ratio.

I would love to move towards proton as I like the team (been with them as an early adopter) and trust in their general approach. I like that though they may not be ace on everything, they serve an important function intentional or not of providing an elegant alternative to services like Gmail, while offering new options for the r/privacy uninitiated. And that feels like something I'm willing to get behind more of.

You are correct! I'm 0-2 now on my correction. hahahaha.

Firefox formerly used Proton as stated in my link. Mullvad also has privacy focus and open sources much of what they have too.

VPN services frequently are competing and lots of thing get said negatively.

Funny, I have the opposite. Brave Browser, send DNT request is enabled in settings, https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ tells me that it's not cover your tracks website tells me it's not.

I toggled the setting and restarted my browser (just in case there is some kind of bit flip on CYT's end), no change in CYT results whether I have DNT enabled or not.

Be sure to check out the link for the "fingerprintableness" of your browser with the Cover Your Tracks tool. This will give you an idea of how capable trackers are of uniquely identifying you and your actions online.