Hey all. I have a real hard time understanding VPNs so I am sorry if this has been asked before. Is Mullvad a safe VPN provider even though it’s main office is in Sweden? I understand Sweden is part of the 14 eyes surveillance countries.
If you are able to answer this like I’m Five years old, that’d be great. Haha
Mullvad is likely the safest VPN provider available today. They don’t ask for or collect Personally Identifiable Information about their customers.
If you pay with a voucher code or cryptocurrency, there are no traces back to you.
other than the usual:
“Under current Swedish law there is no way for them to force us to
secretly act against our users so a warrant canary would serve no
purpose. Also, we would not continue to operate under such conditions anyway.”
if the VPN is open source and trust worthy and you can verify that they really dont collect anything, then it doesn’t really matter where its hosted, what can they give to authorities if you verified they dont collect anything?
Mullvad has an article on this: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation/
In addition to what others are mentioning, my reason to feel better about Mullvad is that ownership and management are known members of the IT community. Some other VPNs are touting their “no eyes” country of incorporation, but their owners and management are secret. For all you know they might actually be run by foreign or domestic intelligence services or even criminal enterprises.
Yes, it’s safe, and if the police forces mullvad to be unsafe, mullvad will shut down.
Does it matter if it never works? No wonder why it’s 4 bucks a month.
So over this VPN. You have ONE JOB!
My two cents: if you have to ask this question on Reddit, you have probably nothing to worry. 
I’m a bit fatalistic about that. I value my privacy so almost everything that leaves our house is tunnelled through Mullvad. The tunnel is one piece of privacy protection, together with separate e-mailadresses for every registration and disposable phone numbers if temporary phone registration is necessary. I’ve been working for 30 years in IT security and I know I don’t stand a chance against a nation state so why worry? If you are worried about torrenting, it is your provider and local police you have to worry about and Mullvad will do a good job protecting you against snooping.
Mullvad is a decent provider. They may not offer the fastest support service but in the eight years I have been using them, their time to resolve an incident is outstanding. You get quality answers and they don’t hesitate to go and talk to development. They would probably be more popular if they offered services to avoid county restrictions but they don’t do that. They were among the very first though to support WireGuard, they do offer support for IPv6 and if you are interested, they will help you with your Qubes network setup.
They are also generous. They are not advertising this, will never confirm it and they might retract it at any moment but you have 10 concurrent connections at your disposal: 5 using OpenVPN and 5 using WireGuard. This is perfect for people who use two OpenVPN-tunnels on the firewall for redundancy, and use WireGuard on PC’s, smartphones and tablets. You can order Mullvad gift on Amazon. It’s not in the payment options on the site but they are mentioned on the blog. Mullvad is now available on Amazon (US & SE)
You mean with a voucher code or Monero. If you pay with BTC, there are traces back to you.
An IP address can easily reveal all this info so what’s your point. I’m not asking you for any private information, but please send me your license plate number.
What sources do you have saying such? That sounds awesome I was unaware
Windscribe you can select server locations. And it’s just 3$ a month for that.
Do you mind explaining a bit more?
You can sign up for mullvad through Tor
They explain this on their website
Edit: (I added a smiley face so I don’t sound mean or similar)