Funny thing is I started using Surfshark just before they started all the YouTube sponsorships. Them doing so many sponsorships actually made me trust them less somehow, if that makes sense.
Mullvad "appears" to be more trustworthy but maybe they are just better at marketing that image. They still cost twice as much as Surfshark.
Is it noticeably faster than Surfshark for you?
I think the companies are afraid of pushing an update that might cause scheduled alarms to not go off on time and cause millions of people to wake up late for work.
That only happened once, but the world economy still has not fully recovered.
My family offered to give me plants for my apartment. I said please no. It's too much responsibility and I'll know I'll forget.
I prefer dogs. They at least can bark when they need something. Plants don't.
Apparently my instance disables downvoting...
How do you drive to the bakery to buy cakes without a car?
Was expecting this to go differently... Like a Rolex or something.
I enjoy lurking HN but many of the opinions I see there about cloud and AI are Luddite-level.
Yes I agree Surfshark has done some weird things. I find it weird that it's actually the same company now as NordVPN, but they don't make it clear.
Regarding performance, Surfshark is decent speed but still slower than not using a VPN. The more annoying thing is that I get a lot more captchas when using Surfshark. I think these issues are common for all VPNs, though I haven't tried Mullvad yet (I will when my Surfshark subscription ends).