Nostr notes by Mullvad VPN

Yet another Android leak enabling malicious apps to send traffic ...

2026-09-11T05:25:30Z

Yet another Android leak enabling malicious apps to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel has recently been discovered.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/another-way-to-leak-traffic-on-android-has-been-discovered

On November 2nd 2026 our public Encrypted DNS servers will be ...

2026-09-07T07:01:58Z

On November 2nd 2026 our public Encrypted DNS servers will be shut down.

This does not impact customers of our VPN if DNS content blockers are used.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead

We’ve updated the Multihop feature with different modes, to ...

2026-08-24T12:05:05Z

We’ve updated the Multihop feature with different modes, to make it more flexible and easier to use.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/introducing-multihop-modes

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2026-08-18T05:27:37Z

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Please contact our Support Team by email:

support at mullvadvpn dot net

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2026-08-10T09:01:51Z

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We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the ...

2026-07-21T10:48:37Z

We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party.
https://mullvad.net/blog/donation-controversy

“The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be ...

2026-07-16T17:40:57Z

“The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Two months left before the UK government requires all content on British citizens' mobile devices to be scanned.

Piccadilly Circus, London: Nineteen Eighty-Four was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

London Underground. VPN restrictions are still on the table in ...

2026-07-13T14:20:33Z

London Underground. VPN restrictions are still on the table in the UK. Much of it depends on the next Prime Minister. Hopefully, that question mark won't turn into a full stop.

Piccadilly Circus. The London Councils didn’t like our campaign ...

2026-07-10T10:32:03Z

Piccadilly Circus. The London Councils didn’t like our campaign against the upcoming state spyware in the UK. So, first the word ”government” was blacked out. Then the whole message was scrapped. On the other side of the road, though: alive and kicking.

Chat Control 1 is back. By a margin of 314-276, the EU Parliament ...

2026-07-09T19:39:01Z

Chat Control 1 is back. By a margin of 314-276, the EU Parliament voted to reject the legislation. However, since it was an urgent procedure, an absolute majority of 361 votes was required. As a result, the majority lost and Chat Control 1 passed. The urgent procedure was a dirty tactic by the Council and parts of the Parliament – it’s a procedure not meant to be used for legislation already rejected by the Parliament.

A new VPN leak that allows any app to leak traffic outside the ...

2026-05-12T09:50:41Z

A new VPN leak that allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel has recently been discovered by Yusuf (https://x.com/cybaqkebm)

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic

This is Senate House in London. When George Orwell wrote 1984, ...

2026-03-27T15:23:07Z

This is Senate House in London. When George Orwell wrote 1984, the building served as the model for the headquarters of the Ministry of Truth (the propaganda ministry). The Ministry of Truth decided what was true, for example that 2+2=5. It was responsible for censorship and rewriting history, and it banned the word “free” in the sense of freedom.

And then it was revealed that Europol wanted unlimited access and ...

2026-03-10T18:03:18Z

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And then it was revealed that Europol wanted unlimited access and wanted to use the scanning for more than just child abuse crimes, saying that all data – also unfiltered and innocent material – should be stored because it “could at some point be useful to law enforcement”.

And then?

And then it was revealed that employees at Europol had joined Thorn, to lobby their old colleagues.

And then?

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries ...

2026-03-10T18:01:03Z

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

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2026-02-13T12:52:37Z

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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. ...

2025-12-19T16:57:53Z

The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”

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And then? AI and all the presidents. Mass surveillance is always ...

2025-11-21T16:35:41Z

And then? AI and all the presidents.

Mass surveillance is always a slippery slope.
It does not belong in free and open societies.

The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

And then? Graffiti artists and siblings with little heads. Stop ...

2025-11-18T17:21:56Z

And then? Graffiti artists and siblings with little heads.

Stop Chat Control.

The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be ...

2025-11-14T10:50:14Z

The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be stopped.

To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now present "And Then?" A film directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

Reminder about removing OpenVPN: we are removing support for ...

2025-08-18T10:33:44Z

Reminder about removing OpenVPN: we are removing support for OpenVPN entirely on 15th January 2026, in six months time.

OpenVPN servers will be completely removed on this date, and support for it within our app will disappear.

Please reconfigure your configurations to use WireGuard to avoid interruptions.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/reminder-that-openvpn-is-being-removed

@nprofile…mgpy We blogged about this here: ...

2025-05-20T06:16:39Z

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We blogged about this here:

https://mullvad.net/blog/removing-openvpn-15th-january-2026

For further questions, please contact our Support Team.

support at mullvadvpnt dot net

Today we're launching Mullvad VPN loader - a new application ...

2025-05-19T08:54:24Z

Today we're launching Mullvad VPN loader - a new application for installing the Mullvad VPN desktop app on Windows and macOS which is both fast and secure.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/launching-mullvad-vpn-loader

Starting with version 2025.2, our Android app builds are ...

2025-05-09T08:47:42Z

Starting with version 2025.2, our Android app builds are reproducible. This means you can verify that the app you download and install is built from the open source code we publish.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/reproducible-builds-verify-our-android-app-builds-bit-for-bit

The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU ...

2025-04-04T10:49:13Z

The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU.

It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda.

The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”

Read the full release from the Commission here:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148

Multihop now available on Android version 2025.1 and newer. Read ...

2025-03-28T11:16:44Z

Multihop now available on Android version 2025.1 and newer.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/multihop-now-available-on-android

DAITA version 2 now available on all platforms: ...

2025-03-28T07:06:20Z

DAITA version 2 now available on all platforms: https://mullvad.net/blog/daita-version-2-now-available-on-all-platforms

Become an early adopter and help us test Mullvad Browser Alpha. ...

2025-03-25T12:33:48Z

Become an early adopter and help us test Mullvad Browser Alpha.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/help-test-mullvad-browser-alpha

Law enforcement agencies from the EU, North America and Australia ...

2025-03-19T06:33:16Z

Law enforcement agencies from the EU, North America and Australia continue their work to gain future lawful access to private communications within the EU initiative Going Dark.

We also note that VPNs are mentioned under “key challenges”.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15941-2024-REV-2/en/pdf

We have found a bug with DAITA and multihop in the iOS app ...

2025-03-06T09:36:14Z

We have found a bug with DAITA and multihop in the iOS app (2025.1 and 2025.2).

We are working on releasing a fix in 2025.3.

https://mullvad.net/blog/daita-bug-in-ios-app-versions-20251-and-20252

The Swedish and French governments are following in the footsteps ...

2025-02-28T17:51:22Z

The Swedish and French governments are following in the footsteps of the FBI and want to demand backdoors in end-to-end encrypted messaging services like nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqmlark5zym2u576hfmecfaa2els8eln4rxls76z24l3g7pq48rvqk92wc8 (nprofile…2wc8) as nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqynlz3qpjg3zsmskuy80hmy6vgv5kht4kugld9mvd36fxuy8kgm9q4yka48 (nprofile…ka48) said in the Swedish news:

"There is no such thing as a backdoor that only the good guys can access.”

To the Swedish and French governments, and to all politicians who ...

2025-02-28T17:49:43Z

To the Swedish and French governments, and to all politicians who believe that they can stop data from ending up in the wrong hands with rules and restrictions: don’t be naive.

Freedom of speech is not an isolated right. We hit the streets to ...

2025-02-21T12:12:26Z

Freedom of speech is not an isolated right. We hit the streets to highlight the rights we need to fight for, not only to protect freedom of speech, but to protect our right to be free humans.

https://mullvad.net/blog/fight-for-privacy-to-protect-all-other-rights

Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly ...

2025-02-11T13:10:19Z

Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party VPN service that uses our WireGuard VPN servers as its “exit hop”.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-partnered-with-obscura-vpn

Split Tunneling is now available on macOS! Read more here: ...

2025-01-10T12:27:10Z

Split Tunneling is now available on macOS!

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/split-tunneling-on-macos

A classic ad in today’s New York Times. It’s a message to all ...

2025-01-08T11:37:58Z

A classic ad in today’s New York Times. It’s a message to all companies, in all industries, all over the world: minimize your data collection, because collected data is data that eventually leaks.

Remaining PayPal subscriptions are being canceled in order to ...

2024-11-13T06:51:17Z

Remaining PayPal subscriptions are being canceled in order to store less data about our customers.

https://mullvad.net/blog/remaining-paypal-subscriptions-are-being-canceled

Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) is now ...

2024-10-25T11:06:36Z

Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) is now available on Android.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita-is-now-available-on-android

Maybe you have seen Mullvad VPN ads in the subway or in the ...

2024-10-24T15:40:20Z

Maybe you have seen Mullvad VPN ads in the subway or in the streets.

There is a reason why we enjoy to run outdoor ads: traditional outdoor ads don’t collect data or micro-target people.

Take a look at some of the units here:

https://mullvad.net/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyone

Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) Now available ...

2024-09-24T11:53:45Z

Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) Now available on iOS!

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita-now-available-on-ios

Multihop now available on iOS! Read more here: ...

2024-09-16T11:46:56Z

Multihop now available on iOS!

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/multihop-now-available-on-ios

A reminder sent to the European Parliament and the European ...

2024-09-10T13:53:47Z

A reminder sent to the European Parliament and the European Council: this is what Chat Control and the Going Dark initiative will result in – total surveillance and the end of secure and private communication.

You can read the articles at mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady ...

2024-05-21T11:33:09Z

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

🧵 1/11

https://mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on ...

2024-05-03T13:36:14Z

We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on Android. They stem from bugs in Android itself, and only affect certain apps. We have reported them to Google, and are working on fixes.

Read more: https://mullvad.net/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android

We have been made aware of a phishing URL presenting itself as a ...

2024-03-26T11:30:50Z

We have been made aware of a phishing URL presenting itself as a sponsored Mullvad ad on Google.

Please be cautious when clicking on links, taking note of the URLs.

We have contacted Google regarding this, and had stopped our advertising on Google as of 1st March.

As a reminder, Mullvad does not have any affiliate programs. ...

2024-02-13T06:04:08Z

As a reminder, Mullvad does not have any affiliate programs.

There is currently a scam going around that involes "a promotional offer" which includes a pdf and zip archive containing a malicious .exe file.

Further information about advertising, affiliates and reviews can be found here:

https://mullvad.net/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-affiliates

We are experiencing issues with Google Play payments in our ...

2024-01-30T15:12:13Z

We are experiencing issues with Google Play payments in our Android app. We are working on resolving this, in the meantime please consider using alternate payment methods. We will update when the payment method works again.

We now have 10 open positions at Mullvad, learn more and apply ...

2023-12-22T08:25:27Z

We now have 10 open positions at Mullvad, learn more and apply here: https://www.mullvad.careers/

#vpn #jobs #hiring #privacy

Just a reminder in the tunnels of NYC: Privacy is for the people. ...

2023-12-21T13:30:10Z

Just a reminder in the tunnels of NYC: Privacy is for the people.

#mullvad #vpn #privacy #newyork #nyc

Going overground in New York City. To spread the word of privacy. ...

2023-12-07T14:55:20Z

Going overground in New York City. To spread the word of privacy. Also, new articles on the importance of privacy, at https://mullvad.net

#mullvad #vpn #privacy #nyc #newyork

We are now offering our Mullvad VPN app to users directly through ...

2023-11-20T11:56:39Z

We are now offering our Mullvad VPN app to users directly through our own signed Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora repositories.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/introducing-package-repositories-for-ubuntu-debian-and-fedora

Guide here: https://mullvad.net/help/install-mullvad-app-linux?q=linux#install-repo

Our Encrypted DNS servers have now been converted to run from ...

2023-11-10T09:05:47Z

Our Encrypted DNS servers have now been converted to run from RAM!

This is completely cost-free, and available to anyone that wishes to have a trustworthy, audited Encrypted DNS service with optional content blocking!

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/moving-our-encrypted-dns-servers-to-run-in-ram

@npub1ct5…zxsc We have no plans to add this.

2023-11-03T08:12:48Z

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Choose your local currency to avoid card exchange fees! Mullvad ...

2023-10-04T07:26:19Z

Choose your local currency to avoid card exchange fees! Mullvad now accepts card payments directly in USD, SEK, GBP and EURO. The price is always €5.

https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/10/4/select-your-local-currency-when-paying-for-mullvad-to-avoid-fees/

Today we sent 116 pages on mass surveillance and its consequences ...

2023-09-13T11:57:32Z

Today we sent 116 pages on mass surveillance and its consequences to each and every member of the EU Parliament.

This autumn, we urge them to vote for a free society. To say No to chat control.

Read all the articles at mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

@npub1r83…uf6k @npub1xsj…5dap @npub1ww5…akjq But of course: ...

2023-08-15T06:25:52Z

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But of course: https://mullvad.net/static/gpg/mullvad-support-mail.asc

Also viewable at the bottom of our website: mullvad.net

Our third VPN server audit has now been completed by Radically ...

2023-08-09T09:36:13Z

Our third VPN server audit has now been completed by Radically Open Security.

“The Mullvad VPN relays which were the subject of this test showed a mature architecture, with the administrators demonstrating a high degree of experience and motivation to tackle the issues we found”

Read the audit report here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/8/9/infrastructure-audit-completed-by-radically-open-security/

Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project today present the release of the ...

2023-04-03T10:15:04Z

Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project today present the release of the Mullvad Browser.

A privacy-focused web browser designed to be used with a trustworthy VPN instead of the Tor Network.

Read the full story and download the browser here.

https://mullvad.net/browser