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by runjake 1619 days ago
How is this nonsense the top comment?

OP's been doing a poor job of "following Mullvad for a long time" and apparently has never used Mullvad or visited its website. Heck, it's on their Wikipedia page[1].

If they had, it would be immediately apparent that Mullvad has servers all over the world. They have for many years -- perhaps since it's inception. It takes a bare minimum of effort to learn that.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Service
2 comments
infogulch 1619 days ago
Your annoyance is understandable, and yet this question and direct response from a founder is a very informative interaction to have recorded in this thread. Much more informative than if GP had simply stated the results of their Wikipedia research.

Sometimes a mediocre question is the landing pad for a great answer. No need to begrudge the question.

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runjake 1619 days ago
While I agree the founder's response was informative, it does not justify the completely erroneous statement/accusation that prompted it.

That most certainly should be called out -- especially when it was, at the time, the top voted comment.

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miamalkova 1619 days ago
People make mistakes. Maybe if you were less you combative your comments would get more upvotes.
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runjake 1619 days ago
I didn't feel like I was being combative, only pointing out OP was misinforming people. They didn't do even basic research, contrary to their statements. That negligence should be called out.

And I'm not here for upvotes. Who's being combative, again?

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codethief 1619 days ago
I have apologized for the factual incorrectness of my comment and explained how I had arrived at that conclusion / brain glitch: They are only mentioning Swedish servers in their blog post and for a second I had forgotten that, like any other big VPN provider, Mullvad of course has servers in many locations around the world.

What more do you want? Upvotes are not under my control and I also cannot edit my original comment anymore. No reason to get personal.

FWIW, I still think that it's important to raise awareness for the deficiencies of Swedish privacy law (irrespective of Mullvad and where their servers are located). I suspect that at least some of the upvotes were also given because people agreed with that.

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