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Its funny, this is another of the billions of reasons why Mullvad should be the VPN of choice. But so many fucking people can't ever get over that their favorit
by intsunny 10mo ago
Its funny, this is another of the billions of reasons why Mullvad should be the VPN of choice. But so many fucking people can't ever get over that their favorite social media influencer/Youtuber is offering a code for 200% off of NordShark VPN, now with extra AI.
- swexbe 10mo agoI wish I could use Mullvad. But their IPs are banned from many streaming services and they don't change them often enough so I am stuck with Nord.
- puffybuf 10mo agoI would just pirate at that point. You're paying for the streaming service anyways. Use mullvad to download the torrent :). I'm pretty sure they ignore dmca requests. Not that they even know their customer's names if you pay with Mullvad amazon card.
- tumdum_ 10mo agoYou do know that NordSec maintains its own rust fork of BoringTun: https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN ? :)
- gwehrli 10mo agoThere is also https://github.com/firezone/boringtun https://github.com/firezone/boringtun which is a fork by https://www.firezone.dev/ https://www.firezone.dev/
- eatbitseveryday 10mo agoIt became less of a choice for many after they sadly had to disable port forwarding.
- jorvi 10mo agoYeah, their reasoning is solid (easy to abuse) but it is still a very useful feature. AFAIK, at the moment your choices are AirVPN and ProtonVPN. AirVPN has static port forwarding and Proton has UPNP port forwarding.
- gruez 10mo agoprivate internet access has port forwarding too
- wing-_-nuts 10mo agoPIA is not to be trusted after their buyout, IMHO
- wing-_-nuts 10mo agoCurrently using airVPN, but ye gods, their eddie client is atrocious on linux. I wind up using wg / nmcli, but then have to block traffic going outside of the vpn with iptable rules because it leaks for some reason. I miss mullvad dearly, and I might try proton after my 3y sub is up.
- jorvi 10mo agoNot only Eddie, their account control panels and site in general look like something from the 90s, and it seriously hampers their business. I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical. And even then, as a technical user, why do I manually have to select one of 10-20 servers within a city or region, why am I being asked to manually load balance? Why is there no Wireguard over port 53 or 443? It makes more sense when you know they're privacy activists first, businessmen second. But Mullvad shows you can be pro privacy and still offer great UX and a sleek site and client. Btw, if you're managing things in CLI, you could take a look at their Hummingbird Suite. AFAIK it has a killswitch. What sucks with Proton is that you can't share the VPN account with friends, because it is tied to your Proton account. They should create a vpn.proton.me subdomain that you can create a special managed account on that can only touch the VPN settings.
- aitchnyu 10mo agoNot to mention holding companies which snap up 15 competing VPNs and whitelabel most of them.
- Spunkie 10mo agoI love and use mullvad myself but I don't think they are very competitive for the average person. They mostly just care about getting around geo blocks on websites and streaming services, which mullvad puts 0 effort into facilitating.
- Philip-J-Fry 10mo agoMullvad is great for privacy. But it's blocked by pretty much every VPN block list. NordVPN at the very least bypasses all the ones I regularly encounter. I do use Mullvad for most web browsing though. But Imgur for example is blocked on it, and it's blocked in the UK, so I need NordVPN if I want to see any images there. Most people's VPN usage is literally just geolocation restrictions and Nord is really good at that.
- Gander5739 10mo agoAren't proxies good enough for that purpose?
- oarsinsync 10mo agoThe user experience differs for proxies. System wide proxy configuration doesn’t actually always work system wide. A VPN tends to have more success in encapsulating all application traffic (or all desired application traffic, if you’re so inclined to configure your system)
- Ylpertnodi 10mo agoI regularly go to imgur via mullvad, exit Netherlands.
- Aurornis 10mo agoMullvad seems to care and be competent about privacy, but most average VPN users aren’t seeking the most extreme privacy. They just want something cheap that lets them do geolocation things or access the most websites.
- AJ007 10mo agoThe average VPN user is knowledge-less. At best their internet usage data is being sold to third party analytics companies. At worst third parties are routing their own bots through their local connection.
- 620gelato 10mo agoBeen buying mullvad for the last 4-5 years but oftentimes I can’t even browse the fucking New York Times website due to low bandwidth, let alone stream anything. At this point, I just keep adding time to my account just in case, without using it.