The app was bought out 9 months ago by some mystery company, isn't actually open source, and you have not switched or made backups? I'm sorry, this is as much a user error as an issue with Raivo.
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Something can be shady and not a honeypot. It's much more common. Its like people forgot this and now anytime anyone feels something is sus this type of post appears.
Let be honest, If your threat model is truly to escape the NSA you probably shouldn't be risking being on social media.
I think part of the reason people dismiss the idea that someone could have that big of a threat model is in most cases it would be unbelievably bad opsec to risk talking about your threat model on social media or something like the privacy guides forum.
I really appreciate privacy articles that talk about threat modeling as it seems like its the biggest part of privacy people miss.
I was in middle school and I saw my friend had all the episodes of ATHF (aqua teen hunger force) and I wanted to be able to get free episodes of stuff. Silly but true.
You can therefore blame the mooninites for my piracy.
You shouldn't be installing extensions on mullvad browser anyway. This completely ruins it's anti fingerprinting measures, which is one of the biggest reasons to use the browser. If your going to install extensions use Firefox or Brave.
If someone can identify you through your lemmy username an admin isn't going to save you from your terrible opsec practices.
Lemmy is a social media service. Act accordingly.
Why would "community vetted" imply FOSS?
Microsoft has a massive community of users and sysinternals is highly regarded amongst amateur and professional users alike. The term "community vetted" makes perfect sense in this context.
I use an optiplex for torrenting, Plex media server, and real debrid. The VPN is always on so I wouldn't be concerned to use it as my daily driver but it's a bit old to handle other tasks in use my daily driver for.
Another case of a user with terrible opsec that proton will end up being blamed for.
Mullvad, IVPN, Proton, AirVPN, or Windscribe are all fine. Depending on how much stock you put into audits the first three are probably a tier above for privacy.
The bar for torrenting is super low. If all you want to do is avoid DMCA notices pretty much any VPN will do as long as you bind it to your torrent client.
In terms of Windscribe they have become a much more respectable VPN if you also want some privacy protections and DNS protections but there are better options.
They used to be a bottom dweller VPN selling off lifetime memberships for $30 in the mid 2000s but have really become a strong privacy advocate over the last few years.