MULLVAD The co founder was found funding a far right party, personally I dislike giving money if I know that’s where they can end up. ALTERNATIVES XEOVO An openly antifascist and trans right supporter company from Finland as per their own fediverse post. Should you be interested, may I ask to use my referral link? After your first month of subscription we both get a free month. Referral link No referral link
FLIPPER ZERO The company is russian. It kinda relocated to US in ~2020, but was still hiring people in Moscow in 2023. The device requires installing software on your current computers before it becomes operational. You risk being pwned yourself, before you pwn someone else with it. The device was developed by Alex Kulagin and Pavel Zhovner in 2019. Alex Kulagin Experience: EPAM Systems · Education: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) · Location: Uzbekistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University “Alumni of the university include past leaders of the Soviet Union and other governments.” We’re talking about russian elites tightly involved with the system here. ...
AUDACITY Bought by “Muse Group” (previously “Ultimate Guitar”) in 2021. Although Muse Group is formally registered in Cyprus, it has been actually operating from Kaliningrad. I’ve seen a video of the CEO of the company speaking at a russian startup event and claiming that some of their business practices where inspired by russian Spetsnaz. After taking over the popular open-source project they immediately introduced telemetry and changed the privacy policy. See: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213 ...
GOOGLE CHROME Let’s start with the big one, chances are you may be using it to browse this website as you read this. Google products are wolves in sheep clothing, if wolves were spyware. On some operative systems chrome even disables extensions that are not hosted on the official chrome extension repo, so if google doesn’t give the ok, they are censored. Source. Furthermore, google chrome has mandatory DRM baked in. Source. ...