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Mullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Only (mullvad.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

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[–] 40 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You don't use Mullvad for their performance, you use them for their insanely paranoid security and privacy practices.

And for the record, I was never impressed with Surfshark speeds. I dropped them when they bundled a virus scanner into their VPN client, that's sketchy as hell. I don't want my VPN provider scanning my files.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes I agree Surfshark has done some weird things. I find it weird that it's actually the same company now as NordVPN, but they don't make it clear.

    Regarding performance, Surfshark is decent speed but still slower than not using a VPN. The more annoying thing is that I get a lot more captchas when using Surfshark. I think these issues are common for all VPNs, though I haven't tried Mullvad yet (I will when my Surfshark subscription ends).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Yeah a lot of these little VPN companies are getting bought up by larger companies with unknown investors, it's kinda worrying. There's one company that owns ExpressVPN, PIA, and CyberGhost now: https://www.kape.com/our-brands/

    Kape Technologies (previously named CrossRider) has a pretty sketchy history of making adware: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/06/09/from-israel-unit-8200-to-ad-men/?sh=7c46d70e26e2

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