Insane - or brilliant… sometimes the dividing line is a bit thin!
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Indeed, in our 
day and age… 
What’s that…? 
Oh it’s the line!
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And US intelligence agencies now probably have him on speed dial.
They should rename from ExpressVPN to ExpressNSA.
First Kape take over, now their CIO is compromised, about as untrustworthy as a VPN provider can be today.
Anyone on ExpressVPN should look for another provider asap.
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Wanted to ask advice/thoughts on using below. No geolocation, just Sweden. I see them mentioned whilst searching for VPN providers reviews a few times.
If you want Swedish based and private then I’d go with Mullvad.
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This statement is the first problem:
It looks like they were swallowed by njalla which was founded by the same person.
The entirety of the information they provide on their site about their VPN offering is:
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Do you actually need a VPN? What’s your use case and threat model? I would question if most actually even need a VPN.
The “protect your privacy” tag line is a meme VPN companies use that doesn’t hold water. Using public WiFi is generally a bad idea but a VPN would make sense there.
Looks interesting. Straight up monthly commitment, low price and seem reputable
Looks like they’re currently in my city in London visiting too mullvad blog
I like how they are open to alternative payment 
Hoping to get my travel authorised and therefore possibly use hotel Wifi. i.e. Only re-activate VPN subscription for a month of the travel and disable subscription until next time I travel. No need to pay for a whole year and monthly commitment only.
So much choice of VPN providers makes it difficult to choose…
The use cases for VPNs have been posted over and over again in this topic but one obvious use case is to protect yourself from your ISP. Where I live, ISPs hoover up everything they can in a wide net. I don’t want to be caught in that net. While it is true that this transfers that ability to my VPN provider, if there is a choice between someone I am not sure if I can trust and someone I am 100% sure I can’t trust, I will always choose the former.
There are other good reasons:
- Avoiding geoblocks
- Protecting yourself from insecure networks
The idea that VPNs are not useful is equally as flawed as the idea that VPNs are a universal privacy shield.
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This seems like a good case for mullvad. Their pricing model is pretty perfect for this.
Destination linux covered this VPN topic on their latest cast and they recommended Mullvad.
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I never claimed they’re not useful, just that most people don’t need them for what they think they do. VPN market them as some way to hide your data online and people think it makes them invisible.
That’s why I point out considering “what’s your threat model?” As that’ll determine a VPNs usefulness.
Mullvad is pretty simple and has a nice pricing model especially for traveling.
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I have another good reason 
I run a couple of repo mirrors, and If I don’t have the VPN going on my other boxes, I can’t access the repos from any of them (same outward-facing addy). Very occasional use as a geo-relocator too. Otherwise, they just slow things down…
@QAP I think Mullvad is your best option. I used them for a while and its simple to setup, they’re reliable, phone app works well, and they have a good reputation AFAIK.
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I am using Surfshark 
On my laptop and android phone
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Mullvad, for less than 5€/month, it do the job and have a lot of locaton for servers !
Sueden for example 
No law about save log files etc…
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Hope Cloudflare will include 1.1.1.1 warp on supported list Arch based OS’ too.
Yes, since several years without issue, sometimes i use cli or gui and most of the time wireguard protocol (package ivpn and ivpn-ui from Aur).