Last time I looked at VPNs, mullvad seemed highly recommended for privacy and security. Sounds like it may still be the case.
I also like that you don’t have to give them any private info at all to make an account. You can just send crypto and they’ll give you an account code and that’s it, you don’t even need an email address.
I haven’t tried it but apparently you can even mail them cash. You get a payment token and just send cash in an envelope and they’ll activate it whenever the money shows up!
you can also buy physical tokens (scratch cards with activation codes) in a shop, with cash
Longtime Mullvad user, always been happy. But when Mullvad was still a small service it was unusual to have any problems when browsing the web with their IPs.
Recently, many services can detect you’re on a VPN when using Mullvad and block or ban you, which means they’ve become successful enough that there are countrer-VPN databases including all of their IPs.
It’s the same with Nord. I have to pause my VPN any time I want to access Fextralife wikis
Ah, Fextralife. For when you want the top half of the screen taken up by a video advert, and the bottom half taken by a giant consent form.
The day we strayed from GameFAQs was a dark day indeed.
It’s pretty awful but it’s always the first search result for anything souls related. It’s bearable with an adblocker though
Pretty sure fextra just rips all their content from other wikis anyway, at least this was definitely my experience in the past. Just try scrolling past the first link in your search engine.
I can’t speak to the ripping of content, but you have to scroll pretty far depending on the subject to get a better result.
Searching “Soul of Cinder” on Google is all Fextralife, fandom, YouTube, reddit, ign/Gamespot/etc. Wikidot doesn’t show up until halfway down the first page and it doesn’t show up at all on duckduckgo.
The answer is probably to add specific sites names to my searches but I’m lazy
I’ve just come to accept that constant captchas are a fact of life for browsing on a VPN. Cost of doing business. Worth it for the privacy though imo (VPNs in general, I haven’t used Mullvad).
I wish Mullvad and IVPN kept port forwarding or find a way to bring it back without having too much legal trouble.
The result is that the operating system that we boot, prior to being deployed weighs in at just over 200MB. When servers are rebooted or provisioned for the first time, we can be safe in the knowledge that we get a freshly built kernel, no traces of any log files, and a fully patched OS.
But can it run Crysis?
Great news! Mullvad is great even if their account security makes you do a double take
I assume they mean there are no account credentials. When you “create” an account on their website, you’ll be given a random account number, and no password.
Yeah this is what I meant. It feels so wrong but also makes complete sense.
I think I’ve gotten used to the “safety” of setting my own password and always typing it with my email or username.
But practically speaking they’re very similar and Mullvad’s is arguably safer
What’s to stop somebody guessing your account number and gaining access? (Honest question)
I am surprised that they don’t provide UUIDv4’s, feels like what they provide is somewhat guessable
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2017/6/20/mullvads-account-numbers-get-longer-and-safer/
As they outline here, there are ~9 quadrillion possible keys, needing around 5.5 million guesses to find an account. I think they hit a nice middleground between decent entropy and still having a number you can memorize (like a credit card).
To be fair, would it matter if someone got access to your account key? There isn’t really any data on your account is there (isn’t that the point)? It’d just let you connect to the VPN
