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[โ€“] banghida@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whenever something is based in Cyprus I always think it's just a shell for some Russian company. Or money laundering.

[โ€“] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

I always think it's just a shell for some Russian company

that's because that's what happening here

[โ€“] Jofus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I believe their development team is indeed Russia bader. However i dont think this is (currently) affecting their business/pivacy guarantees

[โ€“] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LinkedIn says that while most of their personnel are of Russian origin, they are mostly based in Cyprus too. Less than 10% works from Russia as far as I can tell

[โ€“] Jofus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you for looking into this

[โ€“] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've used Adguard for years and follow both their blog and telegram channel and they're great IMO. All the apps are superb, they really care about privacy, and are often the first to update their apps to fix stuff like Googles anti adblock crap on YouTube etc.

[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I always think it's just a shell for some Russian company

Oh boy do I have some news for yooooooou.

Seriously, just use Mullvad DNS. Free and Swedish (also very trustworthy brand).

[โ€“] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Pirata@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's a Russian shell company.

[โ€“] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Still I'm using it.