Any VPN recomendations?

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Which one would you say is faster for streaming?

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At this point, I think NordVPN is hamstringing themself with the full-on ad blitz. It’s a good service for a very reasonable price that works well with every device I try to use it on, but the prevalence of their ads makes it seem like a scam company.

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I’m watching tubi with the free version, right now.

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Surfshark goes in corporate garbage, sorry. It’s closed source and can’t really be trusted

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They’re gonna be expanding soon I believe?

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that is good to know I always wanted to support firefox

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The foundation is non-profit.

I don’t think any of the commercial services can be directly within The Foundation. Most fall under Mozilla Corporation which is a subsidiary of the Foundation, Some fall under separate entities (e.g. Thunderbird is MZLA Technologies)

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The VPN service is offered by the Mozilla Corporation: Mozilla Subscription Services.

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I haven’t looked into it in a while but I believe Mullvad is more private. You can pay anonymously whereas with Mozilla you can’t.

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I’ve already explained the difference in my comment.

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Most things are the same, same infrastructure, but some differences.

  1. Mozilla VPN has some cool integrations with Firefox Container tabs and Firefox features

  2. Mullvad VPN has a few features that Mozilla VPN does not (I don’t recall what features)

  3. Different target Audiences – Mozilla VPN more geared towards the average (semi-tech savvy) user. Mullvad VPN a little more targeted towards nerds and the security+privacy community.

  4. Mozilla VPN supports Firefox and Mullvad, Mullvad VPN supports just Mullvad (both are great orgs)

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I actually have no idea, my internet is slower than any vpn on the planet so I can’t even test that anyway

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For something like streaming it shouldn’t matter.

Any decent VPN will exceed streaming speeds unless the servers you connect to are congested.

And all VPNs good or bad will have faster and slower servers just depending on traffic/congestion/conditions for the particular server at the particular moment.

If you’ve neve used a VPN before, they typically offer dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of servers which you select from, and can switch as much as you like.

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If your internet is good… Proton vpn is good for once in a while case.

I sometimes have to use vpn… like once in a week. I use Proton

(edit— also, what movie are you watching on Tubi? I like tubi as well, just watched 2 films today. Lol)

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A commerical service can be offered by a non profit, though, can’t it?

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It’s probably similar. Mullvad is what Mozilla VPN uses under the hood.

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Can it? Do you have examples?

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Novo Nordisk (maker of Ozempic) is a for-profit pharmaceutical company, but a non-profit organization, Novo Nordisk Foundation, controls it. Novo Nordisk’s structure allows it to use profits for the public good.

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Planned Parenthood is a non profit that basically exists to offer commerical services

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This sounds closer to an example in support of what I’m saying (that for-profit commercial services aren’t directly offered by non-profit foundations) not an example that supports what the other person is saying (“A commercial service can be [directly ] offered by a non profit”).

In your example (which I have only very basic knowledge of), it seems the basic structure is:

  • “Novo Nordisk Foundation” (non-profit), which owns:
    • “Novo Holdings A/S” (privately owned for-profit holding company), which owns 28% of:
      • “Novo Nordisk A/S” (a publicly traded for-profit).