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Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters

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201 points sdsantos | 3 comments | 03 Sep 25 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tetris11 ◴[03 Sep 25 17:44 UTC] No.45118548[source]▶
MullvadVPN seem to be pretty decent at the moment, but it looks like they're laying down a worldwide VPN infrastructure of sorts that other VPN companies can rent (similar to phone networks)

This makes me feel a little uneasy of their unstated longterm goals (corner the entire market), but I do think they are the most trustworthy out there right now

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kfreds ◴[03 Sep 25 21:16 UTC] No.45120492[source]▶
We have a few partners who use our infrastructure (e.g. Mozilla), but we're not trying to dominate as a white-label solution. In fact, we've said no to a few well-known brands who wanted to white-label our infrastructure.

As for our long term goals, take a look at our owner's directive: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/ownership-and-future-mullvad-vpn

We want to make online mass surveillance and censorship ineffective. Mullvad is political action through entrepreneurship. We're reinvesting a lot of our profit into open-source software and hardware projects that benefit both Mullvad and the wider community.

I really don't want us to "corner the entire market" because that would make us a single point of failure. I would like to think that our hard work help push the market to keep improving.

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1. tetris11 ◴[03 Sep 25 21:22 UTC] No.45120549[source]▶
I really like the "to plant trees in the shade of which we will never sit" statement. My pessimism only comes from watching trusted giants like Google and Cloudflare turn into critical infrastructure that in turn dictates the web.

May you continue to be the beacon of trustworthiness and hope that we all need right now

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2. akimbostrawman ◴[04 Sep 25 07:59 UTC] No.45124810[source]▶
>trusted giants like Google and Cloudflare

How where they ever even in anyway trusted??? They are literally peoples search results for sale and MITM as a service.

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3. axus ◴[04 Sep 25 15:36 UTC] No.45128467[source]▶
When they came out, the alternatives were worse.