Mullvad does not use residential IP botnets. They also own at least 150-ish of their 800 servers, and the rest are rented. 45 of their servers also run diskless

Mullvad does not use residential IP botnets. They also own at least 150-ish of their 800 servers, and the rest are rented. 45 of their servers also run diskless: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system-transparency-stboot/ https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur.... If you still don't trust their datacenters a multi-hop will probably hide your actual traffic source. Having a stable, unchanging, unique IP (that is also tied to your identity via billing, etc.) for all of your traffic (like you would with a VPS VPN) is terrible for privacy and the cloud provider will often give out your info for any legal or governmental request.