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Mullvad controversy
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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I thought Mullvad was famous for being the gold standard VPN provider. Can you elaborate on who is more private?
They suggested nym which uses a technology called a mixnet that’s almost self explanatory: you have a network that mixes up the path communication takes so that it’s harder to determine the sender.
Unfortunately that’s got a bunch of problems that basically boil down to it’s more complicated and therefore easier to screw up and the more compromised nodes an attacker has in the mixnet the easier it becomes for someone to screw up.
It’s cool tech but not trustworthy yet compared to the simple alternatives.
Also nym will let you log in with google credentials. Theres some very careful scrutiny a user would want to apply to that.
I do not think nym is a bad vpn like service thing, just that its not comparable to mullvad.