The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/BanjoTheBot on 2025-03-29 23:31:27.

Hey All,

Recently I switched to Arch Linux from Kubuntu, and I noticed when I have Mullvad enabled at startup, Discord and Steam are unable to connect. Steam is unable to connect to the web and Discord just loops on "Failed Update". When I disconnect though, Discord fixes itself and Steam works again after a restart. If I re-enable it later, Discord continues to work, but Steam breaks again. I did not have any of these problems on Kubuntu. On top of that, Mullvad seems to bog down my speeds more on Arch then it did on Kubuntu.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LauferGeo on 2025-03-29 21:31:28.

As stated in the title I have been having issue connecting to any of the server using the mullvad app on my phone since march 28th 2025.

Iphone 13s App version 2025.3

Anyone else have similar issue?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/o0-1 on 2025-03-29 07:51:00.

Was looking to get into private anon payments to pay for mullvad and was torn between monero or bitcoin. Which one is the go to for my mullvad people?

new to it all so its alot to take in. Using for anon payment, dont care about the tech bros crypto bros hype, as long as it doesnt nose dive while i have it im ok with using to purchase online things or things at the store lol

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/BrettShel35 on 2025-03-28 23:06:57.

Never used a vpn before, this is my first one. Like the title says, a bunch of command prompt windows started randomly popping up all over my screen, and were closing immediately. Is this normal?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Taegzy on 2025-03-28 12:42:50.

Mullvad has so many over-the-top features and has gone through numerous audits of their app, but for some reason, their browser extension is still absolute garbage compared to the app.

I don’t mean this as hate, but the extension really is just terrible and is missing half the features of the app. For example, it doesn’t even support the most basic things, such as split tunneling.

I understand that their focus may be more on the app, but is it really that dramatic? Their app is built like a fortress and gets updated every couple of days, while the extension hasn’t been updated for several months now.

Mullvad’s app is honestly a 10/10 but wouldn’t it be a bit better if they updated or worked on their extension more than just once every full moon or so?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MullvadNew on 2025-03-28 11:23:08.

Link: https[://]mullvad[.]net/en/blog/multihop-now-available-on-android

To further increase your privacy and make your traffic harder to analyze, you can now route all your traffic through two servers instead of just one, directly in our Android app, version 2025.1 and newer.

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Our multihop feature allows you to route traffic through multiple servers, creating a tunnel within a tunnel. This means that your traffic passes through two servers—an entry server and an exit server—before reaching its final destination.

By selecting servers in different jurisdictions or hosting providers, you make it slightly harder for anyone to trace your data back to you. Please note that depending on the location of the two servers, this could potentially degrade your network performance.

How

To activate multihop on Android, follow these steps:

• Go to Settings → Multihop
• Turn on multihop by pressing the toggle.

Once activated, you can select your desired entry and exit locations by going back to the main view and opening the Switch location screen. You'll see two tabs at the top: Entry and Exit, where you can choose your locations accordingly.

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Why

Routing your traffic through multiple servers in separate jurisdictions gives you a higher level of privacy and security, even if one server were to be compromised. Adversaries would need to launch timing attacks against the traffic in multiple locations in order to analyze your online usage.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MullvadNew on 2025-03-28 10:46:57.

Link: https[://]mullvad[.]net/en/blog/daita-version-2-now-available-on-all-platforms

We are now releasing version 2 of our Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA).

DAITA version 2 brings two major improvements: a large reduction in traffic overhead and dynamic configurations that vary VPN tunnel characteristics between connections, making it harder for attackers targeting DAITA.

Traffic overhead reduction

DAITA uses two types of cover traffic that add significant overhead to the connection. The first one is constant packet sizes, where DAITA is padding all packets to the same size to erase patterns that would otherwise exist. The second one is the addition of dummy packets to distort network patterns further. This second defense has now been more finely tuned in DAITA version 2. By more carefully inserting these dummy packets, we use about half the amount of these packets while still maintaining the same level of defense. As a customer using DAITA, the immediate benefit is improved speed.

Dynamic configurations

With DAITA version 1, all VPN connections use the same set of rules governing the insertion of dummy packets from VPN clients. This makes it easier for an attacker with sufficient resources and determination to create tailored attacks for circumventing DAITA.

When a user activates DAITA version 2, Mullvad's servers randomly select and assign a dynamic configuration to the VPN connection. This configuration affects how both the client and the VPN server insert dummy packets. Two clients visiting the same webpage will now produce different in-tunnel data streams, which carry through to the tunnel transport layer, resulting in VPN tunnels with unpredictable characteristics despite transporting the same data. Additionally, whenever a device recreates its VPN connection, a new configuration is selected from the thousands of possible configurations.

Read more in this post by Tobias Pulls at Karlstad university: https://pulls.name/blog/2025-03-27-daita-v1-and-v2-defenses/

What's next?

DAITA version 3 is already on the roadmap and will introduce a new type of defense alongside the existing ones. Watch this space for more updates as we advance the state of accessible and performant network traffic defense.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/o0-1 on 2025-03-28 09:24:32.

Just a suggestion lol it took me a bit to find the "scratch cards" on the mullvad site, its under pricing tab about halfway down the page under "Do you offer any type of discount?" in even smaller text "resellers that offer Mullvad VPN " on a page that is titled "Partnerships and Resellers" lol NO HATE im just saying, i had to use a search engine to easily find a page. I understand supporting the resellers but from a customer POV its hard to know what to type or where to look lol even clicking on the help tab and search fast enough "voucher" before the suggested hits pop up, it sends you to "guides" with no info, it needs to redirect instead to "blog post" where the info is. i love mullvad just trying to help

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/InevitableFrosting23 on 2025-03-28 06:51:17.

Connecting to Mullvad makes my Tailscale server completely inaccessible.

I’m aware that Mullvad has an integration with Tailscale, but I don’t think that integration fits my needs. I don’t need to be putting internet traffic through Tailscale. I just want both of them to do their own thing separately without interrupting each other.

Since I just need Mullvad for one self-hosted program, would it be practical for me to put both of those in some sort of isolated network i.e. a subnet? How might I go about it?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/CandlesARG on 2025-03-28 05:59:21.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/not_a_nazi_actually on 2025-03-28 04:46:03.

haven't been able to open imgur.com links for over a week now.

a google search says the site isn't down and hasn't had problems.

what's going on?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/EmperorHenry on 2025-03-28 03:03:39.

How often are the IP addresses of your proxies rotated?

Would it help evade detection from blocklists used by websites if they were rotated more often?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/EmperorHenry on 2025-03-28 03:00:09.

I've seen some people over the years that I've been using mullvad complain that their accounts got compromised.

And since Mullvad is in the business of operating without collecting any data on their users, there's no way to stop someone from mooching off your account once they know your number.

I'm suggesting that every mullvad account should have the option to have a password on the account as well as the account number. No email addresses, just the account number and a password. Pretty much every mullvad user is also using a password manager of some sort. So adding that extra security option I think would be greatly appricated by your users.

You would need to update the website log in functions and you'd need to update the way users log in to the VPN app as well, but again, your users would be happy to have this option if they want it.

You already have to keep track of how much time each account number has left of it, it wouldn't be much more to keep the password too.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LaiserLarrs on 2025-03-27 17:55:47.

I use Firefox with Mullvad Vpn and sometimes I can not open websites anymore. Most don't load (about:blank) and youtube loads, but then shows the no connection screen, other pages work without problems. I then turned off my Wi-Fi, closed Firefox, turned Mullvad off and on again, Wi-Fi turned on again, started Firefox. Now it's back to normal. But it only works if I do it exactly like that. Does anyone have the same problem?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-03-27 16:58:07.

So from what I understand in DAITA, it adds an extra useless data into the packets sent to/from VPN servers. So it's uploading and downloading more data, but is it possible to be noticeable by other users on the network that doesn't use Mullvad and instead connect to internet directly from ISP?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/MullvadNew on 2025-03-27 14:36:29.

Link: https[://]mullvad[.]net/en/blog/successful-security-assessment-of-our-android-app

Our Android app (version 2024.9) has successfully passed MASA, a standardized security assessment, conducted by NCC Group.

The assessment called Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA) is part of App Defense Alliance, originally launched by Google but now part of the Linux Foundation.

It is different from our typical app audits (2018 (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/2018/9/24/read-results-security-audit-mullvad-app/), 2020 (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/2020/6/25/results-available-audit-mullvad-app/), 2022 (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/security-audit-report-for-our-app-available) and 2024 (https[://]mullvad[.]net/blog/the-report-for-the-2024-security-audit-of-the-app-is-now-available)) where we define a threat model and have an audit firm look at our code, binaries and app running on various devices.

Instead, MASA is a standardized black-box assessment against a set of industry recognized security and testing criteria. This means that no code was reviewed during this assessment. It has two assessment levels: Assessment Level 1 (AL1) and Assessment Level 2 (AL2). Both require an authorized independent test lab, but AL2 is bit more in-depth and include a manual assessment in comparison to AL1. In our case we conducted an AL2 assessment using NCC Group as our test lab.

The testing criteria is based on the work of OWASP which continuously develop and publish the following two standards:

• Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS)
• Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG)

To summarize the result of the assessment, the Android app passed all controls without the need for any fixes or modifications. You can check out the result in terms of the App Defense Alliance Directory entry here or directly download the certificate here. As another result of the assessment, our app has now been marked with a Verified badge (also shown as Independently verified and Independent security review) in the Google Play Store.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/TheGovernorsRightEye on 2025-03-27 12:39:45.

I know, silly question. But I just recently tried to install the latest update and my PC rejected it. Saying something along the lines of "Can not be installed on PC" (similar message). Will staying on my current version of Mullvad VPN put me at a security risk?

Thanks

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/defaultroute on 2025-03-27 11:05:48.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/alchito on 2025-03-27 07:20:25.

I’m currently in China and got a Mullvad subscription for the first time.

On Iphone, it tries to connect forever, regardless of the server I choose, but never does. On PC, it takes a solid 2-3 minutes to connect to a server, and even then everything is soooo slow to load.

Has anyone experienced this or has recommendations?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/deathcomestooslow on 2025-03-27 05:33:19.

This is with Mullvad running. It stops having IPv6 but the IPv4 remains. This is different to how my old computer acts, where it would turn both off. Mullvad support says this isn't a problem but it sure sounds like a security risk if something other than Mullvad can use the net directly. Thanks for the help. I pass the few DNS leak online tests I tried but they all seem very short and not really testing all circumstances.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/EmeraldGhostie on 2025-03-27 03:55:38.

any solutions?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LightningProd12 on 2025-03-27 03:16:05.

About 50% of the time, the connection check page says "Failed to check for DNS leaks" and the proxy extension (in the browser) says "Could not determine DNS servers". The other half of the time it says there are no leaks.

I've never had this happen before, is it okay or is there a risk of a leak?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/beefjerky9 on 2025-03-27 02:56:47.

Are the Houston servers absolutely, ridiculously slow for anyone else this evening? The Dallas servers are fine it seems.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/dresoccer4 on 2025-03-26 21:20:16.

I'm using the Mullvad app on my Raspberry Pi Plex server and it has a split tunneling feature, however even when selecting the Plex server program in the Mullvad app the plex server loses its remote access function after a few seconds, which means it's not actually routing the plex server (through port 50000) outside the VPN. Just fyi i'm pretty green when it comes to this stuff.

Anyone gotten this to work, or know of a workaround so my Plex server does not go through the Mullvad wireguard VPN (while everything else does)?

Appreciate any help here.

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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/justarandomstanley on 2025-03-26 13:54:11.

Apologies in advance if I'm missing something, I'm new to the VPN game.

Greece recently introduced a law that goes after torrenting. It's still unclear if this concerns individuals, but I'm not willing to find out.

I installed Mullvad, and for 2 weeks it was fine; but suddenly, my speed got affected and connection is super unstable. I didn't really change anything and I tried MULTIPLE servers, but connection remains unstable. I used to download at 25/30 Mbp/s, and now it's at 4-5 for 30 seconds, and then it's down to almost 0. I can't even stream spotify during these lows.

Maybe it's something with the settings? Any tips?

Speeds are super stable when it's off.