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Thats why I bought myself mullvad a few days before
Great selection of Servers, even better Wireguard and Openvpn integration (since other VPNs are pretty much dogshit regarding their „If you dont use our Spyware on your PC, we wont let you use the VPN“ policy. Then again, the Servers can sometimes be pretty bad when talking about latency and download throttling
Tom's Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it's not for privacy oriented people.
Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all "features" the others do, not paying for audits, etc.
When traffic leaves your device it is free game. You have no control over the VPN companies stuff plus the VPN company also has to have a connection to the internet. Your traffic will always be passing over many different companies infrastructure to get to where its going.
Get your head out of your ass and learn to read. No one likes the "Uhm akshually, that's not technically true" -guy. Especially when they're techinically wrong(it's not talking about no-logging for your entire browsing session, just that the VPN doesn't store logs of your usage. And that is very much a thing, as proven by this court case).
Yeah YOU have no control so it's important that your VPN provider does it right. Once traffic leaves the VPN provider it is very hard to connect that traffic back to you.
11 Comments
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 1y
Oh, I can feel mullvads policy in that
articleopinion, especially since Mullvad too has had their no logging policies tested in practice just like Windscribehttps://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request
I enjoy that Mullvad are transparent with their third party security audits:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-completed-by-cure53
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Thats why I bought myself mullvad a few days before
Great selection of Servers, even better Wireguard and Openvpn integration (since other VPNs are pretty much dogshit regarding their „If you dont use our Spyware on your PC, we wont let you use the VPN“ policy. Then again, the Servers can sometimes be pretty bad when talking about latency and download throttling
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
Heads up, openvpn is gonna be gone next year:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-openvpn-15th-january-2026
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
What no one has said yet, I love the Prepaid Option for Mullvad
mriswith@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Tom's Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it's not for privacy oriented people.
Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all "features" the others do, not paying for audits, etc.
uhmbah@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Mullvad's no-log policy proven after police raid
DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -14 pts · 1y
There is no such thing as a "no log VPN"
When traffic leaves your device it is free game. You have no control over the VPN companies stuff plus the VPN company also has to have a connection to the internet. Your traffic will always be passing over many different companies infrastructure to get to where its going.
mriswith@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Get your head out of your ass and learn to read. No one likes the "Uhm akshually, that's not technically true" -guy. Especially when they're techinically wrong(it's not talking about no-logging for your entire browsing session, just that the VPN doesn't store logs of your usage. And that is very much a thing, as proven by this court case).
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
Yeah YOU have no control so it's important that your VPN provider does it right. Once traffic leaves the VPN provider it is very hard to connect that traffic back to you.
uhmbah@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Do some reading...
Mullvad's no-log policy proven after police raid
DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis
sonalder@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
NymVPN maybe ?