PEBCAK, too much Fakebook and the lack of common sense. For the rest of 10% maybe enough an VPN and updated devices.
It takes 5 EUR to grab that hand and pull yourself up
Why is mullvad shilled so hard?
It looks like it’s more expensive than other VPNs with no justifiable reason. It even has less features than some of the cheaper VPNs.
because mullvad is reliable
That’s nothing special.
They never do any sponsorship deals, they haven’t been in any controversies, they aren’t based in the us, they don’t use any marketing tricks to try and entice users into using it like discounts or insanely high prices unless you elect for a 12 or 24 month plan, the high price gives them less incentive to log user data.
There is no specific reason but all these things add up to make a trustworthy product.
The fact that they do not store any customer data was put to the test in 2023, when the Swedish police raided their offices and left with nothing.
They also spend a lot of time and resources into researching and advancing technology around measured boot and running as much as possible in memory, without having to use disk storage.
Again, none of that is special.
the high price gives them less incentive to log user data.
Do you people really believe this? Holy shit.
Feel free to launch a competitor that charges less for better service. Let us know when you sell it to Peter Thiel too.
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I’ve never used Mullvad. Have you?
Do you people really believe this? Holy shit.
I agree it’s not a great reason but they pile up (the reasons). As well as my previous reasons they also offer significantly more payment methods than many other options, including monero and even cash.
They are also not based inside the 5 eyes.
Oh and they offer completely anonymous account creation. I have not found a single VPN that does this, every other VPN at least requires a e-mail address.
If you think mullvad is nothing special then I challenge you to find another VPN that offers all of the reasons I have specified.
Thanks. Taking monero and not being in the 5 eyes are both good selling points that can set it apart from other VPNs.
Which VPN would you like to be shilled?
Thank you! If you want to take your Mulvad game to the next level then add NextDNS to its custom DNS option in Mulvad’s settings.
Is there anything wrong with using Mulvad’s own DNS?
Not at all. NextDNS is just way more advanced. But a pain to setup. It’s filters are nuts.
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Please, explain further.
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Thank you. I’ll check out the other service. I’ve had NextDNS for several years now, I’ve never needed to contact them and I have seen a couple of new options show up in the interface in the odd time a year I log in.
I was tempted by ControlD a few times but NextDNS suits my needs fine.
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Oh yes that very much is a concern. I’ve divested myself off a few American services, especially those that bent the knee.
I’ll have a think over what’s best.
Does dns0 not have an account? Paid tier?
One thing I do like about NextDNS is I installed it via flu on my UniFi router, and it reports client names correctly, so I can see in my account what device has had whatever blocked. Good for identifying rogue devices or software.
Thank you very, very, very much for taking the time to share this knowledge! I’m looking into it now and will implement system wide changes immediately.
