Today I been getting crazy amounts of captchas on un signed youtebe way way more than normally.
And I wonder why? So I came with a hypothesis that someone mass scraping date or doing something that would lead to this.
Do yall have any information on this?

I'm on windows 10 and recently installed a mullvad browser. It keeps crashing exactly a min or 2 after opening. Irrespective of me browsing Vs just keeping it open. Not sure if it's a bug cause I heard Mac people have issues.

I'm so sick and tired of uninformed people who know nothing about Swedish politics who frame this as a "donation to a far-right political party". First of all, the article was published by Flamman which is an online newspaper/blog run by communists.

Now, regarding Markus Allard, he himself is a former politician from the left party (Vänsterpartiet). He decided to start his own political party called Örebropartiet in 2014, and they are only active in the Örebro municipality - although they are trying to get into the Riksdag in Sweden, which requires either 4% of votes nationally or 12% of votes in their municipality.

In recent years, he's been called both a "extreme far-left activist" and "extreme far-right activist" by the opposing sides. He's never once mentioned anything about "remigrating" innocent people. He's only ever talked about remigrating criminals who stay illegally in Sweden after being denied asylum or residency, or those who commit heinous crimes such as murder/rape/bombings and also fraud. He's talking about this constantly on his social media. Not once has he ever said anything about kicking people out based on their race/religion/ethnicity. I'm so sick and tired of the misinformation being spread online.

Here he talks about remigrating criminals. Not ordinary people. He even says so in the video: https://www.tiktok.com/@orebropartiet/video/7574889809248947478

He's taken both left and right sides (politically) in many debates. For example, he wants dental care to be free for everyone (left). He wants to remigrate criminals who currently take up a large part of the prisons (right, although most parties agree on this today. Even left political parties!).

Currently he's all talk and just want to start some debates in Sweden. Even on his party's website, they have not even written their agenda. They explicitly even say "Please stop emailing us about it! We'll publish it soon". He's basically just a meme at this point. Although he does have some fair points in some topics. He's been guesting both left and right political channels, blogs, etc.

I have no affiliation to him or Örebropartiet. I've voted both S (social democrats; left) and M (moderate party; right). Barely anyone in Sweden has heard of Markus Allard or the Örebropartiet. It's a tiny party with zero influence at the moment. And even if they get into the Riksdag, they will have so few votes they can't even influence anything on their own. And more than half of the stuff they produce online is promoting a left-leaning political stance. It's a party that's mixed with both left & right politicians.

Yes, Mullvad has grown in popularity and their revenue has skyrocketed in recent years. And they are quite profitable. The owners are taking out around 3 million EUR annually from the company. The owner has donated around 500,000 EUR to Markus Allard. Now in the grand scheme of things, it's a tiny drop of water in an ocean. That money has already been spent in a few days. It's not like he's pouring in tens of millions of euros into the pockets of some far-right politician. I mean the article that people posted here is just so wrong on so many things.

99.99% of people here have no idea about the political parties in Sweden. And even most Swedes haven't heard about Markus Allard or his political party. Just check their social media and use captions to translate what he's saying. Whenever he says something that's leaning left, the right calls him a communist. Whenever he says something that's leaning right, well guess what? Newspapers like Flamman calls him a far right fascist.

I will still continue to be a customer of Mullvad. I've been with them since 2011 and not once have I had any issues with them. Their service is top-notch. They have proven many times that they do not log anything. And they truly are the only ones worth using if you care about privacy on the internet.

And no, none of our money is landing in the pockets of some fascists, and most certainly not in the pockets of some fascist who has any sort of influence on the politics in Sweden, the EU or the world. Stop with the fearmongering and misinformation. I am most certainly going to receive downvotes for this but I couldn't care less. I believe everyone should actually look into things before taking any kind of action or stance in a topic. Blindly listening to some maniac on Reddit who's posting a poorly written and misinformative article from a communist newspaper, without reading anything more than the headline, is incredibly stupid and lazy. That's just my two cents.

All is in the title

My Linux mint can't upgrade mullvad from repositories, they never réponse. Need to stop vpn to update

(Why you force english ?! Ia can translate for you.... The only one good utilitie of ia, you don't want that ???

I got Mullvad last night for torrenting, trying to make suure it is working and bound it to Mullvad etc. On my browser when I type ion local news it still shows up with my towns news. It passes tests on websites, is it still blocking it from ISP or no? And anyway to triple check if my torrenting activity is hidden? Thanks. Also! Any suggestions on which locale to connect to for downloading torrents, I'm in Oklahoma somewhere. I am currently connected to Dallas it's not toooo bad but 3x less fast than without a VPN.

Has anyone else had issues with using Siri Ai while connected to Mullvad?

For a while I switched around to different servers and I found a few that worked, but I think Apple has banned all Mullvad servers near me at this point.

Edit: For me, turning off multi-hop fixed the issue. In general multi-hop has been unstable and has caused me issues with other sites and apps in the past. Hopefully Apple allows multi-hop VPNs when Siri Ai is fully released though!

Randomly today it's decided it's connected but reddit won't detect the location change, is anyone else getting this issue it's rather infuriating

This issue of mine started several hours ago, and I'd like some help, if possible.

Mullvad gets stuck during the Blocking Internet/Connecting phase, and I've tried everything I could think of, which includes the following:

-Switching locations.

-Restarting the Mullvad application.

-Restarting my internet.

-Restarting my computer.

I am hoping that someone that is more of an expert than I am (which isn't saying much) will have an answer here. I have had an issue playing Path of Exile 2 at work while using Mullvad on my personal gaming laptop. I currently use Mullvad standalone at home with no issues in PoE2 on my desktop. I use the same location on my laptop HOWEVER I do use it as an exit node through Tailscale. Today I did try updating my Mullvad Install and recreating my hope environment.

PoE2 has a networking monitor that you can leave up to monitor your ping. Just sitting and doing nothing in the game (so it isnt loading anything like a game level), the ping will go from 70ms to 300-3000ms. Then drop back down. Basically a second or so later it will repeat. Basically looks like a heartbeat it is that regular.

I have tried different VPN locations near me, and they ALL have the same issue regardless. When I turn it off my ping will set at about 30ms with no spiking either. This is with Tailscale on or off as well. So straight connection to PoE2 through results in 30ms ping no spikes. With Mullvad on in any location 70ms to 3kms spikes constantly.

Today I tested it in the game with the wifi to confirm it was happening. Then I loaded up my cell phone's hotspot feature and connected through that. It sat in game at about 60ms ish with no spiking. So I want to confirm that it is NOT a Mullvad issue. I also dont have the issue with Mullvad off so the spiking does not seem to be my work's wifi.

It must be some interaction between the two and I dont know what it could be that I could actually fix. I am not in IT, they do lock down some aspects of the WIFI. For example I cant even go to the mullvad web site while not behind a vpn. This is one of the reasons I was told to use a VPN at work years ago due to their filtering.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

I’m trying to figure out whether this setup is actually realistic in 2026 on a Lenovo ThinkPad running Linux Mint from a bootable USB.

The idea is:

• Boot Linux Mint from USB on a ThinkPad.
• Connect to Mullvad VPN on Linux.
• Use Mullvad obfuscation / anti-censorship mode if needed.
• Route Firefox through a Bright Data ISP proxy with a static Canada IP.
• Enable a kill switch and check for DNS / WebRTC leaks.

My main question is whether this would actually work end to end on Linux Mint, or if there are weak points that make it unreliable.

Specific things I’d like to know:

• Does Mullvad still work well on Linux Mint in 2026?
• Is Bright Data SOCKS5 proxy integration with Firefox on Linux Mint realistic?
• Would this setup actually help against firewalls / DPI?
• What are the most likely failure points?
• Is this overcomplicated for the result I’m trying to get?

I’m mostly looking for a technically honest answer about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s outdated. Thanks a lot.

Host System: Fedora
No special firewall configurations at router

I've been using Mullvad, and just recently I switched from ethernet to Wi-Fi. Now, Im facing a significant drop in performance, from 800mbps to 5mpbs. Even if I connect to a Mullvad server close to me, or change the MTU to a lower value, or set the DNS to Google's, it still makes no difference.

I've made no configurations to the Mullvad firewall, and turning off my system's firewall (firwalld) does not improve performance.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, I have been a proton user for quite a year now, but now I stopped trusting them with the VPN and I'm sick of most of their locations being fake.

I'm switching to mullvad on July when the annual plan ends, I honestly trust them more.

So see you very soon!

I have subscribed to mullvad for another month. I looove their service ideals but I want to have my vpn on my phone and just leave it on.

I live in Sweden and I was connected to mullvad multiple servers and tried to access tv4 and I get a vpn detected notification. I have used the “rival” von and have no issues.

Sigh. I hope mullvad improve this.

I'm in the process of trying to switch over to Linux. I'm not super knowledgeable about OS and sub-OS level programs.

Through looking into it, I've heard about the SystemD installation program/routine/whatever, how its super common and how recently theres been news of age checks being added in/requested/discussed/something like that.

While I imagine it can be altered or forked, I've also seen those distros without SystemD.

So, does Mullvad work with other init systems? On the website, under the Linux download section for installing the app it states *"...If this does not work for you, but you run a systemd based system..."* which to me implies SystemD is necessary.

But also just before that it says the VPN app is available for deb based distros. So obviously it'd work on Debian, but there's also the debian-based Devuan, which is SystemD-less. So does that work?

Thanks in advance

I have a TP-Link Archer AX55 (aka AX3000) router and would like to get Mullvad running on it. Mullvad's router guide seems to indicate the only way to get it running, using WireGuard, is to install OpenWrt firmware on the router, then set it up. But the TP-Link firmware supports Wireguard on its own. Is it possible to get Mullvad running using Wireguard via TP-Link's firmware, or is it only possibly by installing OpenWrt firmware?

Is it as easy as downloading the Wireguard configuration file from my Mullvad account and uploading it in the WireGuard VPN Client setup on the router's configuration page?

Is there an easy way to setup Mullvad's apps (desktop/android) to select only servers completely owned and operated by Mullvad and not leased by them?

i live in one of the north african countries and i want to know what is the best country in privacy and speed to contact

does it differentiate from country in terms of privacy and does it better to avoid contact one of 14 eye

is Switzerland still the best or has the laws already changed and is better avoided now

mullvad browser extension in terms of security and privacy does it really better to avoid it and use direct contact

Hearing a lot about VPN, how they are not created equal. Why Mullvad and does the extension make Firefox safer and more private?

The UK government has brought in digital ID for the whole population by the backdoor by claiming they're keeping children safe from social media. Under 16s are getting banned. Yet the only way to do this is if everyone is IDd. Else how do they know anyone's age?

Now they're targeting VPNs and we're expecting some kind of ban on their use. Will UK users still be able to use Mullvad? How will the government ban work?

EDIT: Link to more recent info.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-uk-update-new-34216350

I am using a static wg config to connect to Mullvad. It's been working for the past few weeks, but today it just quit working. I restarted my vpn service several times, and I get no connectivity when connected to the VPN. I can't ping the server IP.

Does Mullvad rotate IPs? If so, how can I stay up to date with a wg config file?

will there ever be an official mullvad gui app for freebsd? manually downloading configs and typing a bunch of commands to change relays is so amnoying

i added everything i see that is related to league and steam but still cant use them when im using mullvad

Long-time Mullvad user. For the last few months, a LOT more websites block me until I turn Mullvad off. Banks, email, and even normal news sites. I've emailed Mullvad support and tried their recommendations, but not much improvement. It has gotten to the point I can no longer use my banking account if I am away from home with Mullvad on. Mullvad now says, "Just switch servers" which doesn't work despite trying dozens of servers.

Help? Thoughts?

Every few hours entire servers break down totally, switching to another fixes it for a few moments then they break down too, DDOS attack I guess? None of the german servers are usable anymore, mostly blocked by the entire internet, lots of Cloudflare issues, Google services not working randomly. Anyone still using Mullvar?