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Mullvad VPN
Company blog · mullvad.net/en/blogsecuritypolitics
Mullvad VPN is the company blog at mullvad.net, writing about security and politics. Since 2013, 449 different Hacker News readers have linked it 708 times, most often “The Mullvad Browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Hacker News readers link Mullvad's help pages and blog posts on WireGuard and OpenVPN setup, its no-logging and payment policies, audits, and its browser. Commenters cite them as evidence for privacy and transparency claims.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Mullvad Browser26 people · 31 mentions · first linked 2023-04-03
- Mullvad DNS21 people · 40 mentions · first linked 2021-07-01
- /en/21 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2013-02-25
- /17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2019-11-23
- /en/pricing/11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16
- /en/help/no-logging-data-policy9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15
- /8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-07-04
- /en/blog/tag/audits/8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31
- /en/browser/hard-facts8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
- Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-05-29
What Hacker News says?
See: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation/ . Also, the Swedish government can't compel Mullvad to divulge information that it doesn't have.
Comment linking /en/help/swedish-legislation/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted We are removing the option to create new subscriptions as a story · 1470 points
HN discussionThey have a 30 day refund policy. Their credit card partner stores transaction information for 40 days. https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#payments
Comment linking /en/help/no-logging-data-policy/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android as a story · 835 points
HN discussionThey only have a monthly pricing option I believe https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
Comment linking /en/pricing/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”- km · 2025-12-19
Submitted GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust as a story · 620 points
HN discussion Would a 3rd party audit work? https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...
Comment linking /en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leaks-found-cure53s-infrastructure-audit/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN as a story · 536 points
HN discussionAs in they power Mozilla's VPN: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...
Comment linking /en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-been-updated-mozilla/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted Shutting down our public encrypted DNS as a story · 484 points
HN discussionYes. [0] " Which payment methods do you accept? We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Giropay, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24. " also Cash "Can I really pay with cash? You bet, and please! Stay anonymous all the way. Just put your cash and payment token (randomly generated on our website) in an envelope and send it to us. We accept the following curren…
Comment linking /en/pricing/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted Mullvad is now available on Amazon as a story · 477 points
HN discussionBut what is also great about Mullvad is that they're actively working to make their remote and local security better. They're involved in the stboot[1] project for example. 1. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur...
Comment linking /en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system-transparency-stboot/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta as a story · 423 points
HN discussion> In order to provide refunds and the ability to recover lost accounts we need to store some record of a payment, at least for a short time. As soon as we do not need the data to enable refunding a payment we scrub the record of anything that can link the payment or the account to any personally identifiable information kept by the payment processor (this could be your bank, for example). So they hold your info and…
Comment linking /en/pricing/
on “We are removing the option to create new subscriptions”Submitted Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise as a story · 421 points
HN discussionI have a Unifi USG, which has a third party wireguard addon, though of course OpenWRT could work just fine. You setup a wireguard tunnel normally, but disable the default routing (on a Unifi, set route-allowed-ip false), and then explicitly add a route for 10.124.0.0/16 through the wireguard interface. The mullvad servers page[1] has socks 5 proxy addresses for all of their servers - assign one to a firefox containe…
Comment linking /en/servers/
on “Facebook Container for Firefox”Submitted MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates as a story · 402 points
HN discussionThis'll help you: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dd-wrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn/ For Geo-IP, unfortunately unless you have some sort of automation to reconfigure the OpenVPN settings on your router - this will only work with 1 configuration. They may be alluding to using the VPN to connect to another country where they're not getting weird as fuck redirects and shit content. Although just as I wrote that, I'm expecting…
Comment linking /en/help/dd-wrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn/
on “Facebook Container for Firefox”Submitted WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app as a story · 379 points
HN discussionIn Sweden they have some spine to do this https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...
Comment linking /en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised
on “Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames”Submitted Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments as a story · 345 points
HN discussionYou can always setup Algo on your own personal VPS running on Azure, GCE, DigitalOcean, Vultr, etc. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo Also, hasn't CloudFlare been audited to verify their no log claims? I know while Mullvad hasn't been audited to verify their no log claims, they have at least been audited to verify the security of their app. https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ "1. We don't write user-…
Comment linking /en/blog/2018/9/24/read-results-security-audit-mullvad-app/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Linux under WSL2 can be leaking as a story · 314 points
HN discussionA good resource for comparing different VPN providers is the VPN Comparison by That One Privacy Guy [1]. I personally use Mullvad [2]. [1] https://thatoneprivacysite.net [2] https://mullvad.net/en/
Comment linking /en/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall as a story · 281 points
HN discussionFYI Mozilla VPN will just be rebranded Mullvad, ProtonVPN is outdated. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...
Comment linking /en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-been-updated-mozilla/
on “Mozilla VPN”Submitted Open-source firmware as a story · 247 points
HN discussionHi! Thanks for the feedback. That’s great to hear. Audits are good and definitely have a place. There’s much more that can be done. I agree open source is also an important one. We’ve tried to identify strong signals of trustworthiness together with a few other services here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2018/10/17/signals-trustworthy-vpns... A technical solution Mullvad is working on is something we call System Transpa…
Comment linking /blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future/
on “Mozilla VPN”Submitted Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules as a story · 243 points
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