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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/One_Presence5084 on 2024-12-27 15:50:12.

I found on the Internet raccoonline project, which will release its dVPN product, how dVPN differs from your usual VPN ?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/BigOil420 on 2024-12-27 12:46:18.

are there any servers that aren't blocked by disney? i'm abroad and i'd like to watch a show

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/lmtfanboy on 2024-12-27 08:34:17.

Is there a way to keep my mobile vpn on while my phone screen is off? My youtube music and videos keep pausing a few minutes after turning my screen off.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Frosty-Influence988 on 2024-12-27 01:54:51.
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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Angry-VPN-8402 on 2024-12-26 23:22:04.

I been using Mullvad for years. It has been good, however I noticed this year more and more websites I use are blocking Mullvad. Reddit Google and Youtube most importantly as those are the ones I use most. It's really annoying. If I want to use Reddit, I have to switch to a specific server, but that server won't work with Youtube. So I switch to the Youtube one, then that doesn't work with Google and so on. I'm tired of hearing "Well, there's nothing they can do about it" Can't they just buy more servers and IPs and alternate them on a regular basis? Are they commenting anything on this issue, are they working on any solution? Thanks.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/thatsmysandwichdude on 2024-12-26 21:54:14.
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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/srqfl on 2024-12-26 11:21:16.

Is anyone else experiencing very long load times on apnews.com when mullvadvpn running? I have a consistent problem with this site no matter which mullvad server I use.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Rash10games on 2024-12-26 06:47:23.

By reverse split tunnel I mean all traffic doesn't go through the vpn but rather you have to opt a program or port in to use the vpn. I'm on ubuntu server 24.04. I'm just trying to bind my vpn to my torrent client and let everything else use my normal network.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MineResponsible9744 on 2024-12-25 09:13:40.

I'm new to Monero, from a post titled "does KYC matter?" on the monero subreddit, the top comment explained that:

"When you withdraw XMR from an exchange, that's like withdrawing cash at a bank. They do not know know what happened with that cash afterwards.

However there remains a permanent record on your name, that you at some point in time did own Monero. It's probably nothing, but in case your government becomes super-tyrannical and starts rounding up people with crypto, or the exchange gets hacked and your name and the amount you withdrew become doxxed, then things can take a turn for the worse."

I read other comments on here mentioning to use changenow, simpleswap, cake wallet, haveno, or peer to peer markets like bisq, but I am still not familiar with those services.

I am aware that purchasing XMR on a CEX would leave a permanent record of owning XMR, which is not ideal, but for purchasing mullvadvpn and maintaining the highest level of privacy, does it matter if I purchase mullvadvpn with XMR withdrawn from the CEX, or first withdraw the XMR from the CEX into a wallet, then purchase mullvadvpn?

Any help or explanations are much appreciated, thank you

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/BalanceScary6559 on 2024-12-25 13:29:03.
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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/ballesterer13 on 2024-12-25 10:53:25.

I have ab ASUS gt-ax11000. Using wire guard on the original FW. I have troubles to connect to server via the router but not on the Mullvad app. Likely because of no bridging. Question: would a change to a gl.net router make sense? Or does it end up the same because a no bridged wire guard connection? The meta question is if there is way to ‚obfuscate‘ (bridge) access from a router for a mere mortal? 🐰 Thanks

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/KeyActive773 on 2024-12-25 05:36:48.

Original Title: How come I can't join a 7 days to die server when using Mullvad VPN? Im a noob but understand the importance of a VPN and I've tried them all. Mullvad has been the best so far and then Proton... But I don't need Protons Eco system so I found out about Mullvad and am happy. Anyone help me out?


Just want to know what I'm doing wrong. If anyone can help me understand how to connect to gaming servers... I'd appreciate it. No big deal I can always play offline, I just play 7 Days to Die once in a while. And only Nintendo with my son so,,, I'm not big into gaming but really love getting away from reality and running from zombies... It would be nice to do it with others online so.... Plz feel free to help thx.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Tricky-Wrap2456 on 2024-12-24 17:11:47.

Getting tired of this now. It’s been months and I still can’t use handoff/screen mirroring or any other iCloud services like iMessages with Mullvad on. On version 2024.8. Why has it not been fixed yet? Proton works perfectly fine.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/cortezz-kun on 2024-12-25 02:40:21.

As the title says, I’ve bought mullvad vpn and found out that the japanese streaming Abema doesn’t work. Do you know if changing the setting would fix it?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/KekwCucumber on 2024-12-25 02:10:08.

paid via wallet of Satoshi. it did say 'fee high relative to tx' but afaik the fee was about $0.40-50

I wasn't bothered about that as you get 10% discount and I prefer privacy.

But I had about £13-14 of btc in my phone wallet, now I have £3, so it has indeed charged me £9

I can see -0.00011829 btc in my wallet yet the TX said it cost about £3-4

pretty feckin angry! wtf? that's 2-3 months of vpn for only 1 month...any idea what happened?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/HappyLeslieAlexander on 2024-12-24 10:33:40.

I have a proxy service running on a Linux server for my own use, and I currently use Cloudflare WARP as the proxy's traffic exit. However, I heard that WARP doesn't protect my traffic as well as VPN, so I tried the Mullvad VPN, but I found that the IP addresses of these paid VPNs are often abused. I'm worried that using a paid VPN as a proxy's back-end exit would be a very unsafe thing, which may lead to a lot of privacy leaks (although I understand that data such as account passwords are encrypted with TLS when exchanging with websites). Should I continue to switch from WARP to Mullvad VPN?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/DoersVC on 2024-12-24 06:02:14.

Hi, I would like to ask if there is a chance to get something like a DNS adblocker made by mullvad. Because I don't want to reroute my DNS requests to other customizable platforms. Everything should stay within the infrastructure of mullvad.

Is something like this planned in future?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MullvadNew on 2024-12-23 09:23:00.

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| | hu-bud-wg-201 | Hungary | Budapest | 10 | DataPacket - Rented | No | | hu-bud-wg-202 | Hungary | Budapest | 10 | DataPacket - Rented | No |

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/xdibellax on 2024-12-23 19:06:07.

I just went to install Mullvad's update to 2024.8 and I now do not see the app on my iMac at all. I can install the app but nothing more than that. Any Idea what happened and how to fix it? TIA

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/reverselavender99 on 2024-12-23 02:51:11.

I mainly use Mullvad on my PC and Laptop and I mainly get it through vouchers on Amazon or via bitcoins, today I tried the app with my mullvad account on my android phone, I was checking the settings and stuff to start using it and then I wanted to add another month on my account directly from the app, now since my paysafecard account is linked as a payment method to my google play account when I clicked on "add 30 days time" on the app it directly propose me to pay using my paysafecard account, I don't know if anyone noticed it but in a nutshell is this workaround a valid way to use paysafecard indirectly to pay for mullvad vpn since they normally do not accept this payment method, I don't really care since I do not use this payment method but kind off genuinely curious now does anyone tried this before ?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/TheHolyToxicToast on 2024-12-23 01:16:20.

Those are features on IOS and Windows, but on Linux you have to either give it the process ID or launch the app from mullvad which is really inconvenient. Are there ways to automate this process or will this be added in the future?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/EarlyActive66 on 2024-12-23 14:03:50.

i try Mullvad browser for the first time.

It should be that all data is deleted when closing the browser, except for the data from specific websites. I add these exceptions. However, when I close the browser and reopen it, the list of exceptions is empty again. What could be the cause of this?

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/distro_back_ups on 2024-12-23 11:13:53.

mullvad never needed such masssive campaings in its history ever and not it seems more and more desperate to attract attention. with over 25 percent in profit (yep! seee their finances), they should have rather discussed some solution to introduce a more affordable plan but nopee!

rather milk more moneys from users who supported them thru years by removing port forward (yea this affects bit torrent a lot and many other things!!), hardly sustainable server speed and increasing more buggy apps!!

greed is what seems likee the main force behind mullvad and what a joke that they talk about privacy this and that while they silently handed over customer data including sesntive info to guess who?? Google! yeppp Gmail was their partner for ages and Mullvad is so coward rn that in their blog they wont even mention their name...

but who cares? not the founders or their CEO...

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MullvadNew on 2024-12-23 09:18:44.

Link: https[://]mullvad[.]net/en/blog/mullvad-review-of-2024


We are counting down the days until 2025 and are excited about the things that will happen next year.

Let us take a look at the special year of 2024. Here is what we remember most fondly:

Self-hosting our Support Email

Early in February 2024 we announced (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/we-now-self-host-our-support-email) the overhaul of our Support Team email inbox, by moving it to our self-hosted hardware. We explained how it had been audited, and that we had opted to run the servers completely in RAM.

Our Support team can be reached via support@mullvadvpn[.]net 

Introduced DAITA

Constant packet size, random background traffic and data pattern distortion, with a heavy increase in bandwidth utilization were what we unveiled during May with DAITA (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita). The technology is available on all our apps across all our platforms, offering users the optional ability to mix in fake data within their traffic to further mask their browsing and usage.

A more detailed look at how DAITA works, with an accompanying video and diagrams was released late-October (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/daita-defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis). DAITA increases bandwidth usage greatly, and can have an impact on battery and network performance. Since announcing the feature we have enabled it on more than twenty VPN servers, both rented and owned, with plans to expand in 2025.

Adding ShadowSocks, multihop and Encrypted DNS proxy access method

An internal goal of 2024 was to bring feature parity across platforms and privacy features to the forefront of our apps. We achieved this by adding Multihop to all platforms, offering a new method by which to connect to our backend API in order for the app to communicate with login servers with the Encrypted DNS Proxy and adding ShadowSocks for WireGuard (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/introducing-shadowsocks-obfuscation-for-wireguard) to enhance obfuscation for customers that truly need it.

Security audits for VPN servers and VPN apps completed

We contacted Cure53 to perform the fourth audit towards both OpenVPN and WireGuard server configrations in June. They expressed that their “..overall verdict on the current security posture of the assessed items within the scope is very positive.” with the report available here.

Just recently in December we wrote about our third security audit of the Mullvad VPN app by X41 D-Sec was performed, a thorough look into our thoughts on the audit, and their report can be found here (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/the-report-for-the-2024-security-audit-of-the-app-is-now-available). The app was noted as having a high level of security, some non-critical issues were found, and have been fixed to the extent possible.

Traditional outdoor advertising

In October we highlighted our outdoor campaigns spread across large billboards, sides of buildings across multiple cities in the USA (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyone) aiming to raise awareness about mass surveillance, showing its negative impacts. Just like these traditional ads, we have no method to track how well these campaigns have worked directly. We just have to have faith that they have had a positive educational impact.


With that, thank you for this year. Our fight against mass surveillance and censorship will continue.

Mullvad VPN

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/preciouschild on 2024-12-22 20:00:59.

Wow mullvad is becoming useless. I guess they put all their money into those fancy ads. Next up must be venture capital acquisition. Thanks for nothing.

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