Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)
impure9435@kbin.run 4 months agoI'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 4 months 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 4 months ago
It's actually the other way around, the more users you have the cheaper everything eventually becomes
dojan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Economy of scale?
impure9435@kbin.run 4 months ago
Yes, there's no reason this wouldn't apply to a VPN provider. It's also the reason NordVPN or Surfshark is so incredibly cheap.
They have lots of users -> They can pay lots of money for advertising -> They get more users -> Everything becomes cheaper -> They can pay more for advertising
You get the point