

This is a frustrating pposition to be in, particularly when few people are willing to offer viable alternatives in such threads.
I don’t want to let a purity test be the reason I impulse switch to a less effective VPN, but don’t want to indirectly fund things I don’t support. Yes, money I spend on Mullvad might go towards shit I don’t want, but what else is on par with Mullvad that doesn’t have some other downside?
As mentioned in the imgur comments: “Flattening the underside of an engine head after it has been deformed by the heat and possibly has blown the gasket.” A quite positive reliability effect in that a flat surface is a better gasket mating surface - means much less likely to have a gasket and overheating problem