If only they didn’t bend the knee to the five eyes and drop port forwarding
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impure9435@kbin.run 1 month ago
That's one of the reasons why I love Mullvad, they actually care about their customers, not just about their bottom line
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
impure9435@kbin.run 1 month ago
They got rid of port forwarding to improve the reputation of their IP ranges. That makes it less likely for Mullvad users to get blocked by CDNs like Cloudflare and Akamai when visiting websites. If you want port forwarding, just use AirVPN or rent a VPS and use that. Not sure what you're talking about, but Mullvad is based in Sweden, which is not a part of the five eyes alliance. It's a part of 14 eyes, but Sweden has very strong privacy, Mullvad even has an entire page about privacy legislation in Sweden: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation
They also have a page that explains how Sweden being part of the 14 eyes alliance doesn't really affect Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/5-9-or-14-eyes-your-vpn-actually-safe
Their office was also raided by prosecutors last year, and they weren't able to seize any customer information, because Mullvad doesn't store anything about their customers:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-requestSocsa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
5 eyes shit is dumb pop security anyway. As if the CIA can’t rento colo space in Kazakhstan and market you some extra spooky VPN.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wonder how much of a bottom line they actually have given how cheap their service is.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mullvad is 5 bucks a month and never has promos.
Weigh that against Nord which often has a year for like 15 bucks…
But Mullvad is one of the few that actually seems to care about privacy.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh wow, I had no idea Nord could go that cheap. To me €5 a month felt really inexpensive.
impure9435@kbin.run 1 month ago
I'm pretty sure they are profitable, considering they were founded in March of 2009. You can't really run a company without profits for 14 years, right? Just routing network traffic isn't that expensive after all. They are the only ones being honest about it, other VPNs charge way more because they only want to extract money from their customers.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cheers. Network related stuff isn’t my forte so I really have no idea about the costs. I just figured that the moment you start adding a decent amount of users the costs will go up, and €5 seems like a really fair price.
impure9435@kbin.run 1 month ago
It's actually the other way around, the more users you have the cheaper everything eventually becomes