[reimertz]

I know multiple people who worked / working at Mullvad and they take their business, security and privacy _very_ seriously. Not surprised to see them shine here.

[pzmarzly]

Coincidentally, Mullvad, Windscribe and IVPN all worked when I was in China behind GFW, while more popular options did not.

Seems like there are VPNs, and then there are VPNs.

[godelski]

I'm a bit curious about how that works. I love Mullvad but routinely I find sites like Reddit completely block it. Even yesterday someone posted a Debian wiki link[0] and I was blocked. It's not all of them but Reddit is a big killer. So I thought China would block all of them (aren't they known?)

Fwiw I'm not switching from mullvad

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252366

[dontlaugh]

It sort of worked for me, but it was very unreliable. I tried Proton and Astrill, both of which worked much better.

Mullvad is pretty good overall though.

[t0mas88]

When they wrote that 3 providers were honest about all locations I have to admit my first thought was "Mullvad, and who would the other two be?"

With their reputation and trackrecord they really can't do any shady tricks. Imagine if they weren't among the 3 honest providers? That would be HN frontpage news.

[RestartKernel]

While I pay for Mullvad directly through my bank, their account number approach built a lot of trust for me. "Here's your number, use whatever to fund it. 5 euro a month, no sales."

[citizenpaul]

At risk of sounding sale pitch'y. Mullvad is the only VPN the longer I use the more I like it. I've tried MANY competitors first and all the other ones so far seem to only get worse over time.

I love that I can pay directly with a crypto wallet and have true anonymity.

[reorder9695]

I do really wish they still provided port forwarding, I understand why they don't but that was really useful and the only competitors that seem to don't exactly seem trustworthy to me.

[cyanydeez]

crypto is a public ledger. If someone wanted to find you, that's pretty easy target.

[Scoundreller]

Can also mail cash. But you get a 10% discount only on crypto.

> We accept the following currencies: EUR, USD, GBP, SEK, NOK, CHF, CAD, AUD, NZD.

Not a bad way to get rid of some spare currency lying about that you’ll incur a fee to localize anyway.

[spiffytech]

I knew they were going to pass the test before I even clicked the article link.

[super256]

Has anyone else from Europe noticed how Mullvad's speeds and latency have becoming worse and worse during peak times in the recent months? I now have to change servers regularly, which was never the case ~2 years ago.

[duxup]

It has certainly been wildly variable for me.

[ignoramous]

Windscribe and iVPN up there with Mullvad in TFA.

> Mullvad ... security and privacy _very_ seriously. Not surprised to see them shine here.

? TFA reflects on dishonest marketing on part of public VPN providers more than privacy / security.

That said, VPNs don't add much security, though, they are useful for geo unblocking content and (at some level) anti-censorship. In my experience, the mainstream public VPNs don't really match up to dedicated censorship-resistant networks run by Psiphon, Lantern, Tor (and possibly others).

[prosody]

Advertising a VPN endpoint in country A which in reality is in country B is a security concern for users trying to reduce their visibility to country B’s authorities. You’re right about the more fit to purpose tools, of course, but they’re more of an impediment to normal internet usage.