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.
Which VPN would you like to be shilled?
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.
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?
NextDNS works because it uses several public lists, but it’s kind of abandoned and HaGeZi removed it from his recommended DNS services because of the complete lack of customer support. The guys from NextDNS moved to dns0.eu. You can set Mullvad’s own DNS service in the browser, and being an ecosystem specialized in privacy, a much bigger company, and having curated lists instead of just shoving tons of public lists without checking for duplicates (NextDNS), correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Mullvad’s DNS probably offers a more concise service.
Please, explain further.
HaGeZi compiles and maintains the biggest DNS blocklists around, it’s used by several DNS services, and most likely by all of them but they don’t credit him. On his page, he recommends some online services based on transparency and privacy. He used to recommend NextDNS as well, but he removed them because, for a long time, many people have complained about a lack of customer support - they don’t respond to any contact. It seems like the service is running but is somewhat abandoned. Its two creators started dns0.eu and are probably focused there.
Technically, the only issue with NextDNS is that it’s unmanaged, and as for now there hasn’t been any changes in who are providing the lists, it just works.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.
