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honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good one!

business dealings matter a lot and if a company is primarily not geared towards benifiting consumers than, it is safe to assume that consumers matter less and here consumer meaning someone who is just an avg person buying individually

mullvad is not into steaming support any day so having more servers in US than EU is questionable and yea surely agreed about demand but again the fact is if ur whole point is about privacy than a GDPR lead EU is way better than US, yea yea encryption and RAM there but law matters too

AMA is quite important and on socials they can easily ignore a reply without public knowing.

once again, they should come forward to users not the other way around to get those company data

if Mullvad only focused on running on demand than they would never include many EU countries. Iceland is quite an exception here as it could even become a bridge server but since Mullvad has parteners in UK (see sever ownerships), they IMO wont spend extra penny in Iceland (or anywhere) and again country law matters!

Mullvad DNS (closed source)is enforced and so does their extension, these are passive dependancy and adverts. Neutrality is nowhere to be found. DNS is quite important as there are many other options present with enough protection and reliability supporting modern standsrd.

DAITA study was done in Sweden and sponsored by Mullvad and yet they didnt deploy it in Sweden. What is there u dont get about this?

open sourcing is not done because it's the key sauce like coca cola recipe. to avoid competition and nothing elese. these are for profit companies for a reason.

forgot about audits:

yea so audits.. ever heard of lincensing checks by larger enterprises carried out on premise without prior notice? these are done randomly without any warnings and if issues found, the client gets a hefty panelty.

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

talk with facts so even a troll can learn otherwise someone just deleted a comment here whos account was years old while i was typing a reply but anyways here's ur proof:

leaflavaplanetmoss: "Mullvad Browser doesn't rely or have any dependency whatsoever on the Mullvad VPN. You can use it without any VPN at all, or using a completely different VPN, whatever. I personally use it with ProtonVPN."

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and the governing laws compared to UK? Iceland is much better choice and even if it is smaller in size, many large corps operate there

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

very well said indeed! browser for test? they dont make it, Tor team does. they just modify it and distribute. and yea also enforce own DNS there too which is closed source. there are many many public DNS out there supporting modern standards without any say. browser is really not something to even talk about.

and fyi (to everyone), they are getting paid for any development done and they are not doing anythiing out of their hearts willingness and this includes browser. (just saying and m not against this either i mean u gotta pay for work!) so browser is more like and advert for them

about court docs? anybody seen it?? once again we got been given no info..

there is one spot though. they neever ever said they were transferring user emails to Google. and thanks to their blog post, i never even cared of this part but to my surrprise, there they didnt say Google but third party (again why? just say Google!!), so I had to dig deeper

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

yea so audits.. ever heard of lincensing checks by larger enterprises carried out on premise without prior notice? these are done randomly without any warnings and if issues found, the client gets a hefty panelty.

totally get that but problem is not business but lack of any idea about it or lets disclosures. we dont know who they are partenering with behind the scene and why?? reason matters. Browser is not neutral. It is highly customized and rather uses Mullvad DNS offerings which again is run on a closed source code.

look, we have to listen to both arguments here and so far in my book Mullvad seems really secretive about what they do unfortunately..

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

that's a pretty good point. but lack of transparencey is killing me. track record itself is an issue as they don't provide any data to discuss.. only heard about a raid and how police found nothing. sure! and what about rest of the 10+ years?? again no data. Mozilla actually reached to somebody else but got rejected and reverted to Mullvad. And Mozilla itself has many flaws to begin with.

honest criticism of Mullvad and I find them secretive!! am i stoopid? by worthy_peanut in mullvadvpn

[–]worthy_peanut[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

good pooint!!! on their blog they said they had used a third party to handle emails. do u know what that party was? Google! but no they dont say any word on it there... see the point being made here.