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I was on nord, now on proton. For various reasons, I'm not happy with the latter - I know it sounds like shilling, but nord gives out stupid long-term deals all the time, got me reliable service on phone and laptops, and I ended up quite trusting that shadow Panamanian company and its supposedly "independent" audits. I moved to proton only for their political stance, but at the end if the day it is just another profit-oriented business that doesn't necessarily cater, or straight care, for one's needs.
I am sure there's tons of reasons not to be on nord (hey, I fell for it, too); so maybe Mozilla then? Indeed supporting a nice project rather than a private company, even if only partially.
What are the issues with Nord?
Because of their massive ads campaign, they took flak on three points: not having a fully open-sourced stack; keeping/harvesting/selling user data, and having elected to locate their business in a fiscal paradise. I have no proof of this, but the smoke got me coughing up for a paid plan with proton.