Its funny, this is another of the billions of reasons why Mullvad should be the VPN of choice. But so many fucking people can't ever get over that their favorite social media influencer/Youtuber is offering a code for 200% off of NordShark VPN, now with extra AI.

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Philip-J-Fry 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Mullvad is great for privacy. But it's blocked by pretty much every VPN block list. NordVPN at the very least bypasses all the ones I regularly encounter.

I do use Mullvad for most web browsing though. But Imgur for example is blocked on it, and it's blocked in the UK, so I need NordVPN if I want to see any images there.

Most people's VPN usage is literally just geolocation restrictions and Nord is really good at that.

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Ylpertnodi 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I regularly go to imgur via mullvad, exit Netherlands.

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Gander5739 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't proxies good enough for that purpose?

	▲	oarsinsync 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The user experience differs for proxies. System wide proxy configuration doesn’t actually always work system wide. A VPN tends to have more success in encapsulating all application traffic (or all desired application traffic, if you’re so inclined to configure your system)

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Spunkie 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love and use mullvad myself but I don't think they are very competitive for the average person. They mostly just care about getting around geo blocks on websites and streaming services, which mullvad puts 0 effort into facilitating.

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eatbitseveryday 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It became less of a choice for many after they sadly had to disable port forwarding.

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jorvi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, their reasoning is solid (easy to abuse) but it is still a very useful feature.

AFAIK, at the moment your choices are AirVPN and ProtonVPN. AirVPN has static port forwarding and Proton has UPNP port forwarding.

	▲	gruez 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		private internet access has port forwarding too

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swexbe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish I could use Mullvad. But their IPs are banned from many streaming services and they don't change them often enough so I am stuck with Nord.

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Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mullvad seems to care and be competent about privacy, but most average VPN users aren’t seeking the most extreme privacy. They just want something cheap that lets them do geolocation things or access the most websites.

	▲	AJ007 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The average VPN user is knowledge-less. At best their internet usage data is being sold to third party analytics companies. At worst third parties are routing their own bots through their local connection.

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aitchnyu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not to mention holding companies which snap up 15 competing VPNs and whitelabel most of them.

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tumdum_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You do know that NordSec maintains its own rust fork of BoringTun: https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN ? :)

	▲	gwehrli 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is also https://github.com/firezone/boringtun which is a fork by https://www.firezone.dev/