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We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 58 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

PIA and Mullvad should have equal speeds because they both have 10gbps servers and wireguard. Both PIA and Mullvad use ram-only servers exclusively. As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad. The main issue with PIA is that they were bought by a questionable company that previously developed adware. You can read about that here. Personally, I would never use a privacy tool that is owned by an ad company, even if they claim to have changed. I used them up until the acquisition, then switched and have been extremely happy with Mullvad.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad.

    That has nothing to do with VPNs, and everything to do with how your browser “leaks” your user behaviour history.

    Captchas go through your browser behaviour history and examine the clicks and pages you have gone through, how long you were on each one and how you scrolled through each page. Stuff like that. If that browser behaviour history reaches a minimum threshold of “human-like behaviour”, there is no test to pass. If it doesn’t, or there is no history to go after, you get a test.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The IP address that a request is coming from can absolutely cause captchas to be triggered. If the host is seeing a lot of bot activity from your IP, it'll do that. That and blacklisting is why Mullvad rotates IPs.

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