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by drenvuk 1527 days ago
Just stating here that you'll almost never find Mullvad on a list of top vpns solely due to the fact that all of the top vpns are owned by the same company masquerading as separate ones and pays for all of those lists.

Thanks for open sourcing it.

2 comments

Tbh, I think the main reason you never see Mullvad on those lists is that they're targetted at people who want to watch region-restricted TV series.
To be clear, you're saying that most other VPNs are targeting that audience, not mullvad, right?
Streaming services take efforts to block VPNs. VPNs targeting users who want to access streaming services need to work to circumvent the efforts of streaming services. Mullvad does not attempt to do this so.
(That's what I'm reading)
Yup.
They also don't have an affiliate program, so there isn't monetary incentive for websites to promote it.
Which company?
Kape Technologies owns ExpressVPN, PIA, CyberGhost and a bunch of other VPNs…