If you want a privacy focused VPN then Mullvad is great.
If you want one for torrents then it’s no good.Why’s that? I used it for torrents a few weeks ago and at least speeds were fine. Definitely slower but not terrible.
Does it leak data or something?
They don’t offer port forwarding so it sucks for seeding. It works but it severely limits the clients you can seed to.
It’s the choice of actually surveilled people and the mentally ill.
From what I know it’s considered “better” because it’s one of the first to use things like shadowsocks.
Usually ISP can detect you are using a VPN, some countries/isp actively block it.
With obfuscation it looks like normal trafic thus, harder to block or to detect you are using VPN at all.
“Mullvad’s Shadowsocks integration is designed to help users bypass internet censorship and restrictive firewalls by routing traffic through obfuscated bridge servers.”
So, it’s up to you if it matters or not.
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It’s tempting to want it by default but it comes at a cost.
I would prefer to have it as an option. Also it’s a game of cat and mouse, if shadowsocks becomes popular, they learn to block it better eventually so you need to move to something else. In fact shadowsocks is considered “old”, we also have Hysteria, XRay and other…
P.S I don’t know why I know these thighs because I don’t even have a VPN, i just find it interesting as a technology…
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It is quite private from what I understand. You don’t share email phone and can evrn choose pay through privacy friendly means. The only thing is, it drains a lot of battery on grapheneOS. To an extent that i had stop using it.
I have found more websites refuse to load with Mullvad VPN than when I use Proton VPN. I use Mullvad on my phone since it’s the only one that is able to be used while I also use Tailscale VPN at the same time on Android.
Having used PIA in the past, PIA is faster and cheaper but I find it suspicious for various reasons.
I discovered they were bought by an Israeli company and stopped using them. Regardless of one’s opinion on Israel/Palestine, I would hope we could all agree Israel is known for using many complex tools and intelligence operations to break digital security and collect data, so this did not feel safe to me any longer.
Cancelled PIA a while back due to BDS issues
Thank you for this
I prefer Windscribe
depends on what regard bro
