Mullvad VPN

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/jerrykkoch on 2025-06-19 09:48:55.

Will turning on IPv6 on Mullvad cause any privacy concerns? Or will there be issues if I continue using only IPv4?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Awkward-Buffalo4457 on 2025-06-18 19:44:08.

How easy is it to use Mullvad for surveys that require you to be in a particular location? Usually, regular VPNs do not work for these but, someone recommended Mullvad. Please any suggestions.

Also, I have the option of paying through Monero, I do not know how safe that is? or what wallet do you suggest I use for this?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/rwx- on 2025-06-17 18:27:47.

Hello all. Very confused here, would love to understand what is happening.

Last week I had Windows 11 on my computer running qBitTorrent with Mullvad. In QBT, the "plug" icon at the bottom was green, indicating that direct connections can be made TO me (for better seeding as I understand it). I set QBT to bind only to the Mullvad NIC. Seeding/uploads worked well.

This week, after I replaced Windows with PopOS, I downloaded Mullvad and QBT for Linux and configured it the same way. But now, on Linux, the plug icon is yellow and says "No direct connections can be made", and seeding is suffering (no uploading).

When I thought about it, this seems expected, since Mullvad does not provide port forwarding (anymore), so there'd be no way for inbound TCP to hit QBT's port. So how were direct connections working in Windows with seemingly no mechanism to handle the incoming connection?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Xu_Lin on 2025-06-17 16:32:30.

We have reached 29K members!!!

It shows that Mullvad is an ever growing community for people who truly value their privacy. That said, as newcomers make their way in, let’s be helpful and civil while engaging in the sub. Please do take time to read the rules (if you haven’t done so) and be mindful while making your posts.

This community is ran by volunteers and people engaged in the service/technology involving VPNs and the like, in short: we’re all human here (mostly). Someone will reach out to help with your issue, or message the mods if need be.

Thanks to everyone in the sub helping it become a better place. Kudos!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/unfair_spaghetti on 2025-06-17 11:50:17.

I don’t know much about VPNs but I’ve been searching affordable and easy to download ones to use. Is this one a good choice? After my trip it will no longer be used. I just need it to protect when I’m checking my online bank accounts. Edit: Use with public networks

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/AlgaeNo6969 on 2025-06-18 18:47:40.

So I travel by train a lot and want to use the provided WiFi. When I connected before using Mullvad a window would pop up and I could accept the terms, but now it's not coming up, not automatically and not when I try to open it from the WiFi settings. It is working on Android, but not on MacOs. I have to disconnect the VPN first, then it works.

The trains are by DB. Maybe someone has experience with that problem.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Max_318 on 2025-06-18 09:33:25.

I will soon travel to China and I would like to know if anyone have used it there. I heard sometimes VPNs dont work in China.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/gracefulpurrs on 2025-06-18 09:01:16.

noticed if mullvad is active, twitch immediately shadowbans you until you stop using it; which servers get around this? i've seen a few threads from many years ago but those probably aren't effective anymore

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Snoo-6937 on 2025-06-18 07:00:12.

It would be useful to have a "Favorites" category in the app where users could save their favorite servers. That way, they wouldn't have to search for them in a long list of countries and then in a list of servers. Thanks!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Lentemern on 2025-06-18 04:54:29.

When I setup my connections manually, it seems like only some of the servers work. For example, I can connect to the NYC servers with no issue, but when I try to connect to Detroit or Chicago to use something closer, or even Swizerland or Sweden, I lose Internet access.

I'm on Arch Linux, using KDE's network-manager frontend to configure the connections, and I'm using the Wireguard config files I got from the Mullvad website. There's no difference in settings between the NYC configs and the others. When I'm connected, I can ping the servers with no issue, but my traffic never seems to get out to the wider internet.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/thatsmysandwichdude on 2025-06-18 04:30:38.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Hanak0u on 2025-06-18 00:01:58.

I want to put in an exception for youtube in no script, but it always resets after closing the browser. I have the option to restore restrictions on restart disabled and have tried adding the url in the per site permissions tab as a trusted site multiple times

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Livid-Dragonfruit58 on 2025-06-17 20:09:55.

I use the mullvad proxy extension to set certain IPs and locations for different websites, and I would like to know if I activate DAITA on my mullvad desktop client it would work normally even with the extension.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LuckyBlackKnight on 2025-06-17 19:46:32.

Im attempting to set up a PLEX server, but i have a server then a NAS, i want all my files to be stored on the nas but i also want the PC to be connected to a VPN for qbittorrent. is there a way to access my nas while connected to the VPN?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/VaultGuy1995 on 2025-06-17 00:11:07.

I've been using Mullvad as a primary VPN for about 6 months. Proton kept having issues with slow/overcrowded servers, so I heard this was the next best thing. However, since the latest update (2025.4) it will only connect if I'm already connected to WiFi. If I'm out and about using phone data, it absolutely refuses to connect to any server. When I'm not actively trying to connect, it places my location in a state I'm not even close to. Any help would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-16 21:09:56.

Some commits that aims to add QUIC obfuscation to Mullvad was made to mullvad repository, what do we know about it? Did Mullvad(or a Mullvad dev) made statements about it? I know that Cloudflare also using it in their Cloudflare WARP, the MASQUE protocol of Cloudflare is what was making me connect WARP on my cellular, my provider blocks WireGuard.

My questions are:

• Is it hard to block that in restricted firewalls?
• Performance compared to Shadowsocks/UDP-over-TCP?
• Is it basically a solution similar to what Cloudflare did as I explained above?
• How much time it needs to be available in Mullvad apps for all platforms?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/yourmamabighoe on 2025-06-16 18:58:41.

So the only money I have is cash in coins which Mullvad does not accept, but I had around €1,6 worth of Monero which as you know isn't enough for the minimum of 1 month that Mullvad offers which is €4,5 or €5 depending on how you pay. Anyway I decided to try sending all my Monero(€1,6) to see if it would work AND IT DID! It added 10 days to my account lol. Thank you u/MullvadNew for accepting us broke people:)

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/FenriIlbardo on 2025-06-16 15:20:45.

I recently switched to arch and yes I know it exists on yay but it would be nice to have the flatpack version to make life easier for everyone, So I was wondering why doesn't it exist?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/mrdonkyman on 2025-06-16 11:47:47.

Hi, if I torrent with 4mb/s+, my internet drops on my desktop within an hour. Not mullvad, my internet (aka the wifi/ethernet icon). Have to restart my pc for it to come back. If I have it capped at 4mb/s, it takes longer, might be something to do with the amount being downloaded?

Tried to download the same torrent on my laptop and it worked without issue. So it should not be an ISP/router issue. Have reinstalled mullvad, no change, looked if there was some firewall on mullvad, nothing. Installed an old version of TP or something (saw it in the faq on mullvad) and it made it worse, instead of a clean download til the issue, I had random drops (mullvad drops) until the issue happened.

Does anyone know what the issue might be? Or should I contact mullvad support?

Also, if anyone knows where to get the newest version of the thing I downgraded, I would love that. Mullvad just gave me a direct download to the install, not the website. Do not like that I can just get random drops for nothing.

Edit in case it is important, laptop is on wifi, desktop is on Ethernet.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Major-Credit3456 on 2025-06-16 10:41:31.

Hello everyone.

For certain reasons I would like to install Mullvad VPN on a router and route the connection. How can I do this, what type of router do you recommend?

Has anyone attempted such a thing before?

Thanks.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Zoda_Popinski on 2025-06-16 08:53:16.

I've been using Mullvad for ages (close to a decade soon) and never had an issue until sometime last year when I noticed that Youtube and Reddit (primarily, but other big sites as well) blocked most Mullvad IPs unless you were logged in to your Youtube/Reddit/etc account. Which is an issue for me since I use NewPipe for Youtube.

You have to do a lot of IP switching before you can find one that works so I gone so far that I disable the VPN sometimes for NewPipe on my phone.

I figured that the big tech companies where just having a crack down on VPN IPs and that's just the world I was living in now.

But since I already pay for Proton mail I figured I'd check out if there is a difference with their VPN. And I had no issues viewing Youtube with NewPipe, even with Proton's free VPN where I must assume the IP is flagged as a VPN all over the place.

Anyone can figure out why that's the case? I don't know enough about networking, but for example, Proton blocks P2P unless you pick a specific server. With Mullvad it treats every server as a normal server. So there must be something different between Proton and Mullvad general setup?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/rm-rf-rm on 2025-06-16 01:08:43.

Had no idea they had the funds to afford getting such ads out in premium locations in the SF Bay Area. Its a tell tale sign of profit maximization or at least that is the fear. And with that brings risk of the security of the service being compromised in some way like data logging etc.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SmallPresentation960 on 2025-06-15 13:31:01.

Hi everyone. I am getting into home server and networking, and so a total noob when it comes to these things. But I am slowly learning.

I have a server running Ubuntu, and I am able to access it on other local machines with SSH. I have installed and activated Mullvad with wireguard, and it is running fine.

Three questions I hope you can help me with. I have tried to find solutions without luck.

1: How can I enable the possibility to access the server via SSH externally through the internett? Just like Amazon AWS or Google cloud? The server is completely empty by the way, so no files can be compromised. It is for learning and practise at this stage.

2: When activating Mullvad I could not use the name @raspberrypi.local, but had to use the IP-address. How come this is the case?

1. To be able to use SSH locally after activating Mullvad, I had to enter “mullvad lan set allow”. What is it with this commando that enables SSH locally again?

Thanks in advanced for your help. I would also appreciate links to resources for best practises, learning networks and servers. I am currently going through https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/01/

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/clattygobshite on 2025-06-15 11:16:36.

I use Mullvad VPN on a grapheneOS device and run the VPN pretty much constantly. I also use Newpipe as my YouTube client, which conflicts with the VPN and can't play videos. I have set up Mullvad split tunneling specifically for Newpipe.

Now, are there any benefits of setting Mullvad DNS in the device's network settings or does that conflict somehow with the VPN?

My thought is: If I set up DNS in the device network settings, will it only be used for non-VPN connections automatically? I have disabled DNS in the VPN itself, following the documentation on the Mullvad website.

Quote from Mullvad website: "This service is primarily meant to be used when you are disconnected from our VPN service, or on devices where it's not possible or desirable to connect to the VPN. When you are already connected to our VPN service the security benefits of using encrypted DNS is negligible and it will always be slower than using the DNS resolver on the VPN server that you are connected to."

Thanks in advance for your help.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/As1an31nst31n on 2025-06-15 10:58:31.