no port forwarding. No business from me

In case someone actually ponders this, Mullvad means mole in Swedish.

VPN = tunnel

Except with the removal of port forwarding

Going by rate of blog posts by year they don't seem any noisier than usual. The opposite if anything. 18 this year and there's only 3 and a bit months left of the year whereas in 2018 they made 60.

You are incorrect. Look through their blog archive (scroll to the bottom): https://mullvad.net/en/blog/

They've been posting steadily for over a decade, maybe the posts just got more popular this year on whatever sites you browse

They dropped port forwarding and likely lost a lot of business related to this. They are trying to compensate for the loss I think which is great.

Noisy? Bit odd to call it that. Also, from my perception they were always present with regularly published news about how they improve or just update/change their service.

The code on the card is covered so Amazon might know you use Mullvad but they have no way of knowing what your account is.

Mullvad know your acct but they have no way of knowing how it is you paid other than maybe it being a scratchcard which they don't track anyway.

Well amazon can tell youve bought a card

But not which code you recieved, on the physical card..

Better yet, they employ a guy you can find in an alley who has a bunch of redemption cards in his trench coat. He takes cash or crack.

Probably not because they still dont know who bought that card since the scratch card is linked to the money but that card could be used by anyone. Nothing stop you from buying them and giving them to a friend

Didn't really have a choice:

...Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

Blog post

Big issue there is hosting providers cancelling them. Can't operate a business without that.

Agreed. Seems like they were in a super tough spot with that and kind of had to drop it. All the sudden they seem to be doing some new cool stuff to try to keep their edge which I really appreciate / respect. That being said, I've dumped them and switched to a service that still port forwards as it gives me better torrenting throughput. Sorry Mullvad.

Why would that be a problem? A boot image should only contain the commands to get the main system started after POST. It shouldn't contain any kind of logs, traffic data, or user data. In fact it should be read-only.

PXE boot will TFTP the boot image into RAM and carry on from there. You shouldn't need any storage on your device.

Boot Drive could be immutable and not contain any form of log?

The article is five very short paragraphs. The third one is:

Our VPN infrastructure has since been audited with this configuration twice (2023, 2022), and all future audits of our VPN servers will focus solely on RAM-only deployments.

Few times, yeah. Last time was August this year

Have you read the article?

Guys I know we all hate it when people don't read the article but did they really deserve the condescension and the down votes? They're dumb not evil.